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W HAT'S IN A NAME? What do you call an economic system that's neither a free-market economy with a small state and light-handed regu...

" I am not here to prosecute Michael Jackson or Michael the film (I won’t be seeing it), but it has driven me to once again say: we nee...

T ake a quick look at the most consequential graph of the last two decades, below. But first, the news: the UN's Intergovernmental Panel...

T he daughter of a Microsoft AI tech bloke was choosing careers, so he ranked them .  First problem: how would she even get started? The mos...

Another Constitutional Trojan Horse: advancing change through political stealth F OR ALL THE FOOLISH NONSENSE about "tsunamis" tal...

" L ike it or not, generative AI is becoming increasingly embedded in the process of seeking information, sharing ideas, and producing ...

" G lobalisation is here and cannot be stopped. With cheap and easy transportation around the globe (unless a country walls itself off-...

“ T his ... has come to define much of the New Right across the West. And ultimately, it is a problem of ideas. The return of the Right in ...

A new report from economists at the University of Hawai‘i makes a point that many of us have known all along: If we want to end the housing ...

" I n order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualit...

A career summarised: no ideas, no direction, no success -- and not one car crushed W hat does a career in politics achieve?  This afternoon ...

“ T he shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.      "To return the shopping cart i...

“ O nce the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious ob...

" W e often praise ideas for their originality and criticise other ideas for being insufficiently novel. So, what do we make of the fac...

T he lettuce outlasted Liz Truss. And the T-shirt has outlasted the Standards Authority at which it poked the finger. In a move that sees th...

" O nly Trump could be stupid, ignorant and immoral enough to start a (just) war against an evil regime, and to leave them better off a...

" T his is because we believe in freedom. ... "Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs ha[d] in [1990s] Bosnia. ...

" M uch of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded goo...

O ver the weekend, we were watching the recent George Orwell doco Orwell 2+2=5 on DocPlay . Worth it, except to the extent it (deliberately...

  " W e are discussing the soon-to-be ratified NZ-India free trade agreement and the opposition by Messrs Jones and Peters. It’s provin...