(Cross posted from On Line Opinion) Australians are very mindful of prejudice and discrimination in our community, and rightly so. Yet, many prejudices are so fashionable and pervasive that they go unnoticed. We are blind to some bigotries. I am a member of an ethnic and cultu...

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[caption id="attachment_36685" align="alignright" width="417"] This picture makes the obvious point that if we got an extremely large person to put on extremely large rubber gloves and gave them an extremely large scalpel, there is no end to the good they could do, starting wi...

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I’ve been looking for an explainer of what’s been going on in Chile and, thanks to Brad Delong for pointing it out . Of particular interest was the way a government won 55 percent of the vote and then held a referendum on a new constitution that crashed— as in really CRASHED!...

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The only education I ever got was in history. And what history taught me is wrapped up in the story the premier English speaking philosopher of history of the 20th-century told about detecting the Albert Memorial. I wrote it up here , but the upshot is a point that’s both obvi...

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I've started posting things here that I'm drafting for my weekend newsletter — which you can subscribe to here — so here's another tidbit. This is an excellent podcast featuring an ‘industry expert’ and then someone who’s introduced as an ‘economic genius’ — Tyler Cowan. The i...

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I recommend the first 15 or 20 minutes of this podcast. Defs worth the listen as John Gray explains where he comes from — literally and intellectually and ideologically. His milieu is British working class and he got to Oxford and has been a maverick to all classes ever since....

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