William F Buckley and the Politics of Kicks
"Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered..." Everyone agreed that...
Weekend Quiz
I am a state in the US. A higher proportion of my economy is given over to research and development than any other comparable area. ...
Henry Ergas: man of many parts
Henry Ergas is in my pantheon of 'most' Australian economists. Of the Australian economists I've known, Glenn Withers knows most about Australian (and other countries')...
Clive Crook
I'm a fan. He was the editor of The Economist's excellent "Economics Focus" for a good while. He may even have been nice enough to...
Tell me what you want, what you really really want . . .
Peter Martin rang me yesterday morning because he told me he was going to write up my ideas on regulation, though we didn't talk as...
Compare and contrast
Here is a piece published in the AFR yesterday. I. Just as Marshall McLuhan argued that, in media the medium was the message, one can...