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Now more than ever . . .

Nicholas Gruen
September 26, 2011
I've been struggling to articulate my objection to little strategic set pieces which appear before policy proposals.  They typically take the salient challenges from conventional...
Economics and public policy Political theory

Sympathy for the devil

Richard Tsukamasa Green
September 25, 2011
The devil in the title is our oldest enemy. Not the hoofed and horned one, but rent. Rent is gains in excess of what is...
Politics - international

Elizabeth Warren is driving right wingers nuts

Don Arthur
September 25, 2011
http://youtu.be/htX2usfqMEs US senate candidate Elizabeth Warren wants wealthy Americans to pay more tax. The Bush administration put the country into a hole, she says. Tax...
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Carnivorous muppet

Don Arthur
September 24, 2011
Just when I'd given up trying to find the Easter eggs in Google's muppet doodle I typed 'Bill Gates' into the search box and saw...
Missing Link

Missing Link Friday – 23 September 2011

Don Arthur
September 23, 2011
Is gender equality driving down the price of sex? Women trade sex for resources, argues psychologist Roy Baumeister. "Historically, women have restricted each other's sexuality...
Immigration and refugees Politics - national

A post-Malaysia asylum seeker policy

Ken Parish
September 23, 2011September 23, 2011
I simply can't understand the strategic or even tactical thinking (if any) behind the Gillard government's decision to pursue a legislative revival of the Malaysia...
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Are we in a Golden Age?

Paul Frijters
September 22, 2011
It is easy to become absorbed in particular problems and in the disaster stories that dominate the daily media. Climate change, natural disasters, wars in...

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