Kitchen Counter

Mr Opinion

Matt Yglesias and his discontents

Oct 4 • 

Alistair Kitchen

15

8

September 2025

The only show in town

We're all trapped in here with you

Sep 22 • 

Alistair Kitchen

26

5

Contra Ganz on Guns

Escaping the habits of American exceptionalism

Sep 16 • 

Alistair Kitchen

19

8

The final argument of Charlie Kirk

He died doing what he loved

Sep 11 • 

Alistair Kitchen

52

18

Travelling to the US?

Here's my advice

Sep 4 • 

Alistair Kitchen

43

7

June 2025

Deported Australian writer: "I was desperately trying to maintain a sense of self"

Alistair Kitchen wrote accounts of the student protests at Columbia. He just found out that some of his readers were the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

Published on Hard Reset • Jun 24

One hell of a week

Hi, hello, and thank you

Jun 21 • 

Alistair Kitchen

93

9

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests

The US Government reads this blog.

Jun 19 • 

Alistair Kitchen

603

109

March 2025

On the deportation of dissent

When 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…

Mar 10 • 

Alistair Kitchen

145

41

February 2025

The Potato People, now on the ABC

World Famous Essay About Potatoes Now In Podcast Form

Feb 24 • 

Alistair Kitchen

9

6

November 2024

Agonistes

and the necessary pride that becomes us

Nov 3, 2024 • 

Alistair Kitchen

21

4

June 2024

Liberated Zone VII

Everything in its right place

Jun 16, 2024 • 

Alistair Kitchen

6