A recent presentation on ‘Making an impact’
https://youtu.be/IX0dt2X5d64 Here's a presentation I gave to a recent Government Economists' Conference in Canberra. Like some other reflections of my book launching years (only some of...
We’ve already had Our Very Own Brexit
[caption id="attachment_33274" align="alignright" width="278"] In good bookstores everywhere – at a very reasonable price[/caption] Cross-posted from the Lowy Institute Blog. Instead of munching popcorn at...
Why we should fear a world Empire
Universalists dream of a world empire in which a world government works to solve global problems, enforcing the same law all over the world. There...
Is it the duty of the state to police a positive national history story?
Something very odd happens when people get told a story of how other people with some shared characteristic have behaved in the past: they take...
Academia: from inefficient effectiveness to efficient ineffectiveness
If, as I think, academia has gone from being inefficient but effective to being efficient but ineffective (a proposition I won't defend here), the mechanism...
Pedantry is not its own reward – and it’s certainly not ours!
Pedantry is alluring. Especially if one gets some aesthetic satisfaction from the way words are used. Take "begs the question" for instance. I love this...
The British Film Festival
Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks Military Wives (Opening Night) The life of a military wife can be thankless. Separated from loved ones,...