IPA Review- May 2013

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Researcher at the IPA, James Bolt. There’s been a rapid comeback for Abraham Lincoln on the pop culture scene. He is in vogue, with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter depicting his overlooked vigilante days and Steven Spielberg’s recent film which was a relative hit at the Academy

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by student at La Trobe University, Patrick Hannaford. In 1971, Richard Nixon announced the final end of the gold standard with the line ‘we are all Keynesians now’. Whilst there is some dispute to the exact wording of Nixon’s statement, the sentiment expressed by him highlights the

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by corporate strategist and former senior adviser to a federal Treasurer and Attorney-General, Alan Anderson. The collapse of the Soviet Union invalidated at a stroke the foundational geopolitical models of the Cold War. The Manichean power struggle between the competing ideologies of liberal democracy and communism had

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of the Deregulation Unit at the IPA, Alan Moran. Anne Applebaum’s massive study—468 pages plus another 140 pages of notes—analyses the tragic history of Eastern Europe under communism and its post Hitlerian prelude. Her tome delves into the antecedents of the post war communist leadership

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. Almost everything in 1970s Britain seemed to be failing. Its industrial economy was in steep decline, crippled by strikes and excessive wage demands. Inflation peaked at over 30 per cent and unemployment reached its highest level since the War.

This article from the May 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Melbourne based writer, Jeffry Babb. The term ‘Anglosphere’ is often used as a convenient heuristic device to group peoples, economies and societies which are apparently linked only by the language they speak, English. James Belich, however, convincingly demonstrates that English-speaking societies have a multiplicity of linkages