Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has published widely on topics of international security and modern history, and is currently lecturing in Modern History at the University of Queensland. I blog at Oz Moses (http://ozmoses.blogspot.com/)


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	Masking Up under Biden: The Perils of Tribalism, Bureaucracy and Lawsuits by Dr. Binoy Kampmark One crackling theme streaking through the US elections of 2020 was the issue of mask wearing. Critics initially felt that facemasks were of the too important category in
	Trigger Finger for Armageddon: Trump and the Thermonuclear Monarchy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It is the sort of breezy, skimpy and careless reasoning that is laying the ground for the Biden Republic. A person, kicked off a social media babbling platform and having
	Reading the COVID Fine Print: The Undoing of the Australian Open by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The decision to go ahead with the Australian Open, the first of the grand slams of the tennis calendar, was always going to be fraught with problems. Players journeying f

	Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and Australia's Complicity by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said little in the statement from her department, which
	Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National University was one of breathless wonder. “The US government,”
	Twitter Nukes Trump by Dr. Binoy Kampmark This was Twitter Safety’s January 8 post, full of noble concern: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldT
	Trump, Insurrections and the 25th Amendment by Dr. Binoy Kampmark How strange it must have seemed for US lawmakers to be suddenly facing what was described as a “mob”, not so much storming as striding into the Capitol with angry purpose.
	In Diversity We Trust: Joe Biden's Cabinet Choices by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Perfumed and tailored for a certain brand of folksy, identity politics, Pete Buttigieg hoped to blast his way to the White House having run a community of 102,000 constituents in South Bend, Indiana.
	Environmental Capitalism and Climate Change Wars: Australia in 2000 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The Australian was convinced.
	Proxy Jailor: Denying Assange Bail by Dr. Binoy Kampmark History, while not always a telling guide, can be useful. But in moments of flushed confidence, it is not consulted and Cleo is forgotten.
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