Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The government hates protests because they give a glimpse of the pedestrianised city 051
Reposted by Alistair KitchenJulia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 15/01/2026"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...nytimes.comJudge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics 4162561766
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026“We regret that our transparently racist act created division. And also that it predictably destroyed the thing it is our one job to protect.” 1105
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Reflecting serenely on a national newspaper which, after commissioning and publishing a piece from me, advised that it would pay in exposure 020
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Why would anyone write when they can Administrate 120
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Dare I ask why the Adelaide Festival Board, which oversees Adelaide Writers Week, featured zero writers? 171
Reposted by Alistair KitchenAlistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Here is what I wrote them: 1173
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Hard to see the Adelaide Writers Week decision as anything other than appallingly racist, grotesquely illiberal. 061
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025open.substack.com/pub/alistair...open.substack.comIn fear, Australia turns to repressionI signed this petition today from the Jewish Council. Some of you might like to, too. 050
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Trump's new travel policies send a clear message. For visitors to the US, self-censorship is your ticket to ride. My piece in the Fin. www.afr.com/world/north-...afr.comI was detained and deported for opinions Trump’s America didn’t likeThe message for visitors to the US is clear from Donald Trump’s new social media rule: self-censorship is your ticket to ride. 164
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Man I know so many people who should quit their jobs and go do this instead 021
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Great essay here thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...thebaffler.comBelittled Magazine | Bruce RobbinsThirty years after the Sokal affair, whither the little magazine? 010
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025the amendment clearly does seek to codify the two term norm. Will it have that effect? we’ll see 000
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Not to be obtuse but if an abuse of constitutional language allows Trump a third term then the constitution literally does allow third terms 110
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Indeed www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinion...kitchencounter.blogMr OpinionMatt Yglesias and his discontents 030
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I for one think it’s good Tame Impala now sounds like Enya 140
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025I have a piece in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au today about how superannuation disadvantages women www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...thesaturdaypaper.com.auConfronting the superannuation gender gapAdvocates say more needs to be done as the tweaks made to superannuation tax offsets for low-income earners will barely help the quarter of women who retire in poverty. 081
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Love Krasz but this is unfortunately the Guns Don’t Kill People of books 010
Reposted by Alistair KitchenRachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors? 24458154
Reposted by Alistair KitchenJewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhen you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah SchwartzNot speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice 47631
Reposted by Alistair KitchenBenjamin Clark @benjamin-clark.bsky.social · 06/10/2025In today’s @crikey.com.au, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference. The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...crikey.com.auAlbanese’s speech to UK Labour wasn’t partisan — it was factionalWhy has Albanese stuck his neck out for the incumbent? Because Starmer has, in many, ways emulated Albanese. 185
Reposted by Alistair KitchenSave Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...artshub.com.auI was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is bafflingAs Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present. 0139
Reposted by Alistair KitchenMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I’m actually well-regarded and successful. 191003
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I wrote about the man everyone loves to hate, @mattyglesias.bsky.social . www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinionkitchencounter.blogMr OpinionMatt Yglesias and his discontents 2185
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Wrote this the day Mahmoud Khalil was arrested. I was later deported for it. Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...open.substack.comOn the deportation of dissentWhen I, an international student in the US, began writing dispatches from the protests at Columbia last year I felt as though good things were once again possible. 0164
Reposted by Alistair KitchenJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...nytimes.comJudge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech 245990
Reposted by Alistair KitchenPhil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social "What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist" Please consider letting others know that this exists. pen.org/what-to-do-i...pen.orgWhat To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A WatchlistWe map out steps you can take right away, and steps you can take to build resilience longer term against doxing. 16654
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025A lot of non-Americans feel embarrassed by their own fixation with the US. They shouldn’t. 1322
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025open.substack.com/pub/alistair...open.substack.comThe only show in townWe're all trapped in here with you 031
Reposted by Alistair KitchenSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025"Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, extremely difficult and constraining, far too much so for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom.” ― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices 010319
Reposted by Alistair Kitchenlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2025From sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke... 1015736
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Australian masculinity, whiteness, loss, cane toads, Gerard Manley Hopkins… my neighbours who farmed worms... It’s all in there. Please support the magazine, and Australian intellectual life, at this link: islandmag.com/next-issueislandmag.comISLAND | Australian Literary and Arts MagazineIsland Magazine 010
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The culling of @meanjin.bsky.social shows just how fragile, and threatened, Australia’s literary ecosystem is. And yet the editors at @islandmag.bsky.social were willing to take a risk on a piece that tries to do… a lot 110
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Hi all. An essay I’m very proud of, an elegy to the Queensland rainforests I grew up in, will appear in @islandmag.bsky.social 175. 151
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025open.substack.com/pub/alistair...open.substack.comContra Ganz on GunsEscaping the habits of American exceptionalism 000
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Australia takes in roughly the same number of immigrants as the UK but has less than half the base population. 030
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025open.substack.com/pub/alistair...open.substack.comThe final argument of Charlie KirkHe died doing what he loved 150
Reposted by Alistair KitchenSave Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Rally tomorrow morning: 9am at MUP Hear from literary giants, show your support, #savemeanjin Details at savemeanjin.orgsavemeanjin.orgSave MeanjinSave Meanjin from closure 01210
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I signed the letter and I hope you do too 020
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025This open letter calls on Melb Uni’s Vice Chancellor to reduce her salary by 10% in order to save @meanjin.bsky.social At 85 years old, Meanjin is a cornerstone of Australian literature. A 10% gift would reduce Prof. Johnston’s salary to $1,350,000 per year. openletter.earth/an-open-lett...openletter.earthAn Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin 1144
Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Extraordinary. I have co-signed openletter.earth/an-open-lett... 071
Reposted by Alistair KitchenCatriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture 45833
