- Editorial - Andrew Bushnell
Righting Wrongs In America
- Editorial - Darcy Allen
The Threat of Identity Politics
- Cover - Daniel Wild
How Identity Politics Divides Us
Book Reviews
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‘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
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
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
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