IPA Review - October 2017 - IPA - The Voice For Freedom

Editorial - Andrew Bushnell
Righting Wrongs In America
Editorial - Darcy Allen
The Threat of Identity Politics

Cover - Daniel Wild
How Identity Politics Divides Us

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Richard Allsop 23 October 2017 IPA TODAY, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AREAS, Western Civilisation

‘We have just witnessed the political funeral of Ronald Reagan’ opined Tom Pettit of NBC on a night in January 1980 when Reagan lost the Iowa caucuses to George Bush. It was only a narrow loss, but it was a bad one. Reagan should have had a... Read more

Father James Grant Faith and Society, IPA TODAY, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AREAS

Whether you are an active Christian, or someone who recognises the central role that Christianity plays in forming and sustaining western values, the fragility of our current churches continues to evoke deep angst and concern. This trend should make... Read more

Andrew Bushnell 22 October 2017 Criminal Justice, IPA TODAY, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AREAS

In politics, the range of ideas that the public will accept is known as the Overton Window. Ideas from outside the window can shift the public discourse, changing what people think of as normal. The same is true for behaviour. People’s conduct... Read more

Deborah Henderson 20 October 2017 Ideas and Liberty, PUBLICATIONS, Red Tape, RESEARCH AREAS

‘Screw the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration), I'm going to be DOA’ were the immortal words of a dying Ron Woodroof, played by Matthew McConaughey, in the 2014 movie The Dallas Buyers Club. The movie told the true life story of an AIDS... Read more

Andrew Bushnell 10 October 2017 Criminal Justice, IPA TODAY, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AREAS

Across the United States, governments at all levels participated in the segregation and consequent impoverishment of African Americans. For 100 years, from the end of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War to the 1970s, federal, state,... Read more

Daniel Wild IPA TODAY, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AREAS, Western Civilisation

The idea that Indigenous Australian’s should have a separate voice in our Parliament, the push to make Australia Day a representation of our divisions rather than our unity, and the calls for formalised diversity quotas are all manifestations of... Read more

Sinclair Davidson 1 October 2017 Finance and Economics

The debt debate is over with the political class, writes Professor Sinclair Davidson. Recently on The Bolt Report Michael Kroger—former IPA director and now Victorian Liberal Party president—made the point that it was a great pity that the... Read more

Darcy Allen Freedom of Speech

At the core of our liberal democracy is the understanding that we are all equal. The spread of identity politics across Australia and the West, however, directly undermines this by seeking different rules for different groups of people. Rather than... Read more

Richard Allsop Government Services, Ideas and Liberty

Despite doubts about his age, intellect, and political philosophy, Ronald Reagan’s message of hope won him the presidency, writes Richard Allsop. ‘We have just witnessed the political funeral of Ronald Reagan’ opined Tom Pettit of NBC on... Read more

Morgan Begg Ideas and Liberty

A new book, supposedly on the global decline of liberalism, amounts to a thinly veiled diatribe against Donald Trump, writes Morgan Begg. It is a tired cliché that 2016 was a big year in politics. The established way of doing politics was... Read more

Michael Husek Western Civilisation

A new book reveals government plans for the destruction of resources and the mobilisation of civilians in the event of a Japanese invasion in World War II, writes Michael Husek. The Asia-Pacific, 1942—the midst of World War II. February 19,... Read more

Gary Sturgess Western Civilisation

Dunkirk the film is the latest framing of a long-told story, writes Gary Sturgess. Human beings are coded for narrative: it is how we make sense of the world. The psychologist, Donald Polkinghorne argued that ‘the self is ultimately nothing... Read more

Gideon Rozner Dignity of Work

A new book reveals how prime aged American men are leaving the workforce. Gideon Rozner shines a light on a similar invisible underclass here in Australia. Forget what you’ve heard— in the land down under fewer and fewer of us are men at... Read more

Andrew Bushnell Freedom of Speech

Identity politics threatens our liberal democracy, writes Andrew Bushnell and Daniel Wild. The idea that Indigenous Australians should have a separate voice in our Parliament, the push to make Australia Day a representation of our divisions... Read more

Righting Wrongs In America

The Threat of Identity Politics

How Identity Politics Divides Us