IPA Review – October 2018

IPA Review – October 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS – OCTOBER 2018

Editorial

Scott Hargreaves

Inside the Intellectual Dark Web

A new breed of entertaining and enlightening free thinkers bypassed mainstream media to reach millions of people worldwide

Gideon Rozner

Right Climate for Nuclear Power

An eco-modernist concerned about climate change says nuclear energy can avoid a looming crisis in our energy supply.

Ben Heard

Clause for Concern

In an Australia held back by red tape, counting restrictive clauses in legislation is a powerful tool to roll it back.

Darcy Allen

To Yield and Not To Strive

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promised ‘a thoroughly Liberal Government’ … but instead it was a thorough disappointment.

Simon Breheny

Rewarded For Not Thinking

A Melbourne schoolboy captures the costs of thoughtcrime under Stalin, via stories from his great-grandparents.

Maxim Bishev

A Capital Idea

Benefits for workers are the real success of modern management, which flourishes only in free societies.

Bradley Bowden

Vatican’t?

The Vatican’s passivity and appeasement towards repressive regimes means danger for Catholics and the church.

Fr James Grant

Reap What You Sue

A libertarian lawyers argues that public figures like Jordan Peterson harm free speech by resorting to defamation law.

Matthew S. Widmaier

Stick Your Neck Out

Nassim Nicholas Taleb of ‘Black Swan’ fame is interesting for what he says and how he says it, including in his latest book.

Scott Hargreaves

A Conservative Answer to Liberalism’s Crisis

Three new books describe liberal ideas and institutions in crisis, showing the need to restore confidence in our civilisation.

Andrew Bushnell

Luther Nailed It

Martin Luther’s profound influence is captured in a new history of Protestantism, but tolerance and freedom came later.

Richard Allsop

Upper Cut to Snootocracy

A British book on ‘patronising bastards’ is cathartic and entertaining, but also hit and miss.

Gideon Rozner

Strange Times

Our correspondent has been calculating his Social Credit score, and he’s in trouble.

James Bolt

Editorial - Scott Hargreaves

A Culture War And Peace

Featured Articles


A Capital Idea: Modern Management in a Free Society
Bradley Bowden

A Capital Idea: Modern Management in a Free Society

Benefits for workers are the real success of modern management in free market societies, writes Professor Bradley Bowden  (originally published in the October 2018 IPA Review). Management, as a discipline and an occupation, has become a ubiquitous feature of the modern world. Among university students, business and management is now the most commonly studied degree. For those of us who work, a manager
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Right Climate for Nuclear Power
Ben Heard

Right Climate for Nuclear Power

Whatever your take on climate change, nuclear power is the safest option for averting Australia’s looming energy crisis, argues Bright New World Founder Dr Ben Heard. Once upon a time, Australia made the National Electricity Market (the NEM), geographically the largest electricity network in the world. The NEM operated efficiently for many years until the conditions on which its design was predicated began
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Upper Cut to Snootocracy
Gideon Rozner

Upper Cut to Snootocracy

Quentin Letts letting loose delivers a cathartic read even though some stray punches strike the wrong targets, writes Gideon Rozner. As countries throughout the West buckle under the disconnect between the political class and the mainstream, the London Daily Mail’s columnist Quentin Letts unloads on the ‘snootocracy’: the political, cultural and financial elites that have steadily ‘betrayed Britain’. And Letts
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Clause For Concern
Darcy Allen

Clause For Concern

Counting restrictive clauses in legislation is a powerful tool to reduce red tape, argues Darcy Allen. It is time for a new approach to red tape reduction. Governments seeking to systematically reduce red tape need a metric by which they can measure their success or failure. In particular, we need to focus on ‘regulatory restrictions’ or ‘restrictiveness clauses’ in regulations—providing
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