Freedom and Flourishing

  In this third instalment of our collaboration, we move on to consider more specifically how libertarians should respond to some illiberal ...

  This question is posed in the title of Chapter 10 of Steven Pinker’s book , Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters. ...

  The charts shown above suggest that some of the assessments that political partisans make of the views of their opponents are wildly inacc...

  It is about time greater recognition was given to the sterling efforts of Australia’s liquor licensing regulators. While some public healt...

  Over the last few decades, Australian politics seems to have become more like that of the United States. Politics in this country was once...

The social singularity should not be confused with the technological singularity, which Wikipedia defines as the hypothesis that inventio...

Steven Pinker’s aim in Enlightenment Now , The case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, is “to restate the ideals of the Enlight...

Productivity growth is important because the opportunities available to our children and grandchildren depend on it. As I write that I can ...

I have been feeling a strong urge to write about the economic policies of the former government of our resurrected prime minister, Kevin Ru...