Are Australia's "libertarians" really authoritarians in disguise? Upper house voting in Victoria provides a clue.
Category: Ideas
Putinists right and left
Far left and far right again turn out to have more in common than you might think, including a weakness for Vladimir Putin.
A Thatcherite in power?
Britain gets a new prime minister today with the elevation of Liz Truss to the Conservative leadership. What does it all mean?
Populism or fascism?
Does Italy's recent experience show populists losing ground to the far right? Or is that a misunderstanding of what "populism" is all about?
Libertarians against freedom
In an eerie parallel to what has already happened to the Republican Party, America's Libertarian Party falls into the hands of the enemies of liberty.
Back to the 1980s
Themes of the Cold War era have returned to relevance with the invasion of Ukraine. Are there lessons to be learnt?
Looking back on neoliberalism
Is the "neoliberal" era ending, and was there ever such a thing to start with?
Death of a humorist
P.J. O'Rourke leaves behind a wonderful body of work but also an ambiguous moral legacy.
End of an era in East Asia
South Korea's last two military rulers die within a month of each other, prompting reflections on the era that they represented and the relationship between authoritarianism and economic growth.
OK, let’s talk about voter ID
As the Morrison government tries to legislate for a voter identification requirement, both its supporters and its opponents seem more focused on American conditions than on its actual implications in Australia.
The World is Not Enough 