People & associates
Tom Switzer
Identity crisis
IPA Review, June 2011 These are dark days for the Australian Labor Party. Its consistently bad opinion polls-the party's primary vote hovers in the early 30s-is but one of the symptoms of its seemingly incurable malaise. Just under a year ago,...
The rise and rise of the Tea Party
When Barack Obama won the White House and his Democratic Party increased its majorities in both houses of Congress in 2008, the conventional wisdom pointed to a political realignment in the United States. Conservatism, which had shaped much of...
New world leaders and the politics of power
IPA Review | March 2009 In early 2008, David Cameron said he greatly admired Barack Obama and pledged to bring some of the same uplifting spirit of change and renewal that the American Democrat generated in the US to the British political scene....
Nixon as culture warrior
IPA Review | March 2009 Tom Switzer reviews Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (Scribner, 2008, 881 pages) Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a modest, working-class Protestant family. He worked at...
Public attitudes toward foreign investment
Everything's changed? The Liberals have locked conservative government
It's still their ABC
Economic Nationalism: It's Back to the Future
The prospect of greater government intervention in the economy, dressed up as various forms of economic nationalism, is far more dangerous than we might think.