We Will Not Submit
This article from the April 2012 edition of the IPA Review is by editor James Paterson. The Finkelstein Report into Media and Media Regulation is not just a massive threat…
Obama’s Presidency for Dummies
Scott Hargreaves reviews Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 944 pages) In selecting Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State President Obama has made history...
Book Review: The White Man’s Burden
George Ayittey’s book, Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa’s Future, was published in 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan. When you are the new kid on the block, the swiftest and surest…
Australia’s 13 Biggest Mistakes
Far from the wars of Old Europe, relatively immune to the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, and endowed with ample land and resources to fit a country many times our…
Book Review: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics Without God
Jason Briant reviews The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics Without God by George Weigal (Basic Books, 2005, 202 pages) Anyone who takes an interest in foreign policy...
Book Review: Loving the corporation, 50 years on
‘Peter Drucker is probably the bestknown writer in the world on the philosophical and practical aspects of industrial management.’ So wrote the editor of the IPA Review in 1956 when…
The Role of Dry Philosophy
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood .… Practical men, who believe...
Menzies and the Middle Class
It is the fashion among today’s ‘clever’ people to pour scorn on those who influenced or controlled Australia’s destinies in the past. These earlier leaders were apparently...
Then and Now: A Reflection by Sir Keith Hancock
Sir Keith Hancock, an historian and scholar of world renown, ranks among the best minds this country has produced. His book, “Australia”, written in 1929, is regarded as a...