Recent Posts
- A Vibrant Darwin CBD - vision and reality by Ken Parish 30/05/2018
- Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters by Ken Parish 29/05/2018
- John Burnheim on theory and practice in understanding the world by Nicholas Gruen 28/05/2018
- OECD brain eaten by environmental memes by Nicholas Gruen 24/05/2018
- Citizens’ juries as activism: holding political elites to their constitutional role by Nicholas Gruen 23/05/2018
- Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles (Deutschland films that is) by Nicholas Gruen 23/05/2018
- Orations, orations orations … out they go by Nicholas Gruen 20/05/2018
- Neutering the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism by Ken Parish 16/05/2018
- Shared Value by Nicholas Gruen 14/05/2018
- RICHARD GREEN: Sakura, 5 years later by Nicholas Gruen 12/05/2018
Recent Comments
- Alan on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Alan on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Ken Parish on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Ken Parish on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Alan on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Ken Parish on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Alan on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- paul frijters on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Alan on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- John R Walker on OECD brain eaten by environmental memes
- John R Walker on OECD brain eaten by environmental memes
- derrida derider on OECD brain eaten by environmental memes
- Alan on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- Ken Parish on Unloading the Duelling Constitutional Six Shooters
- paul frijters on John Burnheim on theory and practice in understanding the world
-
Authors
Categories
Archives
Author login and feeds
Academic
Alternative media (Australian)
Alternative media (international)
Arts
Business
Centrist
Economics and public policy
Left-leaning
Legal
Online media digests
Psephology/elections
Right-leaning
Sport
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Evidence-based policy: why is progress so slow and what can be done about it
Here’s a presentation I gave at the anniversary of Australian Policy Online which has been cunningly rebranded under its old acronym as Analysis and Policy Observatory. I gave a similar one at Kings College London a few weeks previously. Note that some of … Continue reading
More fully human
Well there’s been a frisson of excitement in the chess and AI world lately with the extraordinary performance of AlphaZero – essentially the computer that mastered the game Go – a game which proved, despite the relative simplicity of its rules, a … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, IT and Internet
2 Comments
Affected speech impediments: is this a uniquely English phenomenon?
Last night, having read a fantastic essay (pdf) by the great historian of revolutionary and pre-revolutionary America Bernard Bailyn, I made my way to the lecture series in honour of Isaiah Berlin where there were plenty more interesting lectures. In any event I’ve known of … Continue reading
Posted in Blegs, Cultural Critique
10 Comments
Could more “plebisurveys” restore public confidence in Australian democracy?
The extraordinary outpouring of national happiness following the passage of the same sex marriage legislation on Thursday unavoidably gives rise to the question of whether some similar community consultation/plebiscite/survey mechanism (perhaps a well-designed and secure online survey mechanism rather than … Continue reading
Is the end of Brexit nigh?
The EU and the UK government have just agreed to muddle on in their negotiations. Nothing is truly decided until everything is decided, but they have adopted a position document (see here) that details what they want the next steps … Continue reading
