The poverty of intellectual correctness – Part One: Neo-Darwinism
I wrote this essay a few years ago as part one of a two-part article that would illustrate some parallels between intellectual authoritarianism in neo-Darwinism...
Corporate Social Policy Responsibility
[caption id="attachment_33337" align="alignright" width="344"] I was after one of the sillier charts to illustrate CSR. It was a tough choice, but this one hit all...
Churchill’s children: the rise of the privileged Marketeers in Anglo-Land
For almost a century the royal road to becoming a top politician in Anglo-Land was to study law and/or a bit of economics. In Australia...
The framing wars: Have the elites gone off on frolics of their own unsupported by the community?
Are you pro-choice or pro-life? Language like this shows us how fundamental framing has become to political combat. Political debate isn’t just ‘dumbed down’ or...
Job of last resort: the job guarantee’s modest cousin
Hello, my name's David Sligar. Nicholas Gruen has kindly encouraged me to do some blogging here. I started reading this blog over a decade ago,...
Oysters and institutions
I have extracted below a section that took my fancy from an academic article about the economist Neild, whom I'd not heard of previously. It is...
#BoySplaining: How not to argue
[caption id="attachment_33290" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] I made up the term #Bossplaining. Or thought I did. Turns out it's already a thing.[/caption] The one thing I learned in...