The Weinstein case: is #Metoo delivering justice?
They got him! It cost millions of dollars in legal fees, and involved multiple trials, settlements, and dismissal of the worst charges, but they convicted...
Intellectual authoritarianism: The Golden Age of Female Philosophy Edition
[caption id="attachment_35624" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If you put the golden age of female philosophy into Google Images you get this. It has accordingly been selected as...
Vale Holden: I told you so edition
I was sending this column to an ABC journo regarding the auto industry. It makes for sad reading today. From January 12, 2012 Herewith – somewhat...
Erwin Fabian: RIP
Well as economists and physicists have been known to say, something that cannot go on forever eventually ceases to go on. I learned last night...
Honours: 2020
I wrote a piece on Australia's Honours system for Australia Day last year and decided this year to make it an annual event. So here's this year's...
Trust and the competition delusion: A new frontier for political and economic reform
The Griffith Review has just published a substantial essay of mine that I've been working on for some time. I reproduce the introductory section below after...
Defending independence in the age of deep spin
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1225553117929988097?s=20 If you know anything about the latest State of the Union Address, you know that after Donald Trump had handed Nancy Pelosi his speech...