TABLE OF CONTENTS – AUGUST 2018
Editorial
Scott Hargreaves
It was an interesting process by which Kanye West came to grace the cover of the IPA Review, not previously noted for its coverage of rap artists.
Gideon Rozner
What can Australia learn from middle America?
Our English Inheritance
Stephanie Forrest
Tracing the roots of the unique English parliamentary system we enjoy in our liberal democracy.
Morgan Begg
A nerdish cartoonist and a charismatic rapper find themselves on the same side of the culture war, as Trump’s persuasive talents rewrite the rules of politics.
Gideon Rozner
An unusual rap breaks the mould
Boondoggling Australia
IPA Researchers
Big government loves promising big dollars to big projects, leaving ticking debt bombs in the path of future generations.
John Dahlsen
Overregulation and red tape in banking has destroyed competition to the detriment of consumers.
Rediscovering Australian Liberalism
Zachary Gormann
Liberalism in Australia has a proud, much older history than the Liberal Party.
Red Tape Corrodes Democracy
David Kemp
The more government regulates its people, the more it fails them.
Jennifer Marohasy
John Abbot
Investigating what the world’s climate would be like if the Industrial Revolution had never happened.
Morgan Begg
It is time to change laws that are restricting religious liberty, an essential feature of freedom and liberal democracy.
Nobody Wins In Global Trade War
Matthew Lesh
Australia has much to lose in the looming global trade war.
When Two Tribes Go To War
Matthew Lesh
Tribalism is splitting the United States down cultural and political lines, and Matthew Lesh fears Australia is heading in the same direction.
Secrets And Sabotage
Richard Allsop
A new Richard Nixon biography uncovers more murky behaviour by the controversial president.
Strange Times
James Bolt
Featured Articles
Jennifer Marohasy
A Carbon Neutral Climate
Jennifer Marohasy and John Abbot investigate what the world’s climate would be like if the Industrial Revolution never happened. What if there’d never been an industrial revolution? What if the ‘dark satanic mills’ decried by William Blake had never been built, and the fossil fuels stayed in the ground? According to official climate bodies like the International Panel on Climate
Morgan Begg
Dragon Energy
Mega-popular music artist Kanye West caused mass outrage with a series of Twitter posts in April 2018. The controversial rapper wore a Trump-style Make America Great Again cap and expressed his support for black conservative activist Candace Owens. Soon after, cartoonist and author Scott Adams of Dilbert fame broadcast a video online titled ‘Kanye West showed the way to the
Gideon Rozner
Ye vs the People
One of the world’s most influential rap musicians, Kanye West is notorious for his colourful and often outlandish public persona. But nothing in West’s career of some 20 years has been as controversial as his revelation that he is – quelle horreur – a Trump supporter. West’s support for the president came to light shortly after the 2016 election, with
Gideon Rozner
Hope and Tax Cuts in Waterloo Iowa
What can Australia learn from middle America? Gideon Rozner heads deep into Iowa to find out (This article first appeared in the August 2018 edition of the IPA Review. PDF of article here.) Even by the standards of smaller airports in Australia, Iowa’s Waterloo Regional Airport is conspicuously spartan. One boarding gate, one baggage carousel and only two flights daily
John Dahlsen
Banking on Competition (by John Dahlsen).
Overregulation and red tape in banking has destroyed competition to the detriment of consumers, argues former ANZ Director, John Dahlsen. [This article first appeared in the IPA Review of August 2018 (PDF here), and an edited extract ran in the Australian Financial Review on 21 August, 2018.] Banks are very powerful. Banks have a huge influence on our economy and our lives. Banking,
Daniel Wild
Boondoggling Australia
When politicians are tempted by a big vision, fiscal prudence is rarely front of mind. Once there are nine or more digits after the dollar sign, the numbers are so ridiculously large that politicians lose their grip on everyday logic and fiscal restraint flies out the window. In the US they call them boondoggles: big government projects that make politicians
Book Reviews
Matthew Lesh
When Two Tribes Go To War
Tribalism is splitting the United States down cultural and political lines, and Matthew Lesh fears Australia is heading in the same direction. As the infamous author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua was typecast as a Chinese American mum with a forceful parenting style, but she’s also a law professor at Yale University with expertise in human
Richard Allsop
Secrets And Sabotage
A new Richard Nixon biography uncovers more murky behaviour by the controversial president, writes Richard Allsop. Richard Nixon has already been the subject of plenty of biographies, but his controversial career and complex character continue to appeal to new biographers. The latest is John A Farrell whose biography of Nixon has at least one striking new piece of evidence about
