Books

How does a young man who learns jazz and classical piano, scours Europe’s great art galleries for artistic enlightenment and falls in love with women from all over the world go on to become reviled as a bigot? The answer has less to do with him than it does with his critics. As cartoonist Bill Leak discovered, all it takes

Summoning Magna Carta: Freedom’s Symbol Over a Millennium, is the follow-up to Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt That Gave Us Liberty, written by John Roskam and Chris Berg, and released in 2015 for the 800th anniversary of the momentous events at Runnymede. While that volume traced the important link between resistance to arbitrary taxation and the emergence of political liberty, this book

NEW BOOK – CLIMATE CHANGE: THE FACTS 2020 The Institute of Public Affairs today announced the release of a significant new book of research Climate Change: The Facts 2020 published by the Institute of Public Affairs and Australian Scholarly Publishing. Climate Change: The Facts 2020 is the definitive guide to the latest international research and analysis on climate change science and policy. 

This essay first appeared as Chapter 22 of the IPA publication, Climate Change: The Facts 2017. Click here to read this as a PDF. When you tell people once too often that the missing extra heat is hiding in the ocean, they will switch over to watch Game of Thrones, where the dialogue is less ridiculous and all the threats come true.

This is an excerpt from the IPA’s publication The 100 Great Books of Liberty on The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages by Harold Bloom. Canon: In relation to literature, this term is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones. A battle is now being fought to change or throw out the canon. —A

A new book by Professor Sinclair Davidson and Dr Chris Berg ‘Against Public Broadcasting: Why We Should Privatise the ABC and How to Do It’ was launched last night at an Institute of Public Affairs event in Sydney. RMIT Postdoctoral Fellow and IPA Senior Fellow Chris Berg said, “The ABC is a 1 billion dollar public policy initiative that is

A new book by Canada’s Fraser Institute in collaboration with the Institute of Public Affairs has found that Australia has had biggest decline in entrepreneurship among similar countries. Australia’s small business entry rate declined by 40 per cent between 2003-05 and 2012-14, a substantially larger decline than the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. The collection of essays by leading scholars, Demographics and Entrepreneurship:

We are pleased to announce that we have entered into an arrangement with our good friends at Connor Court Publishing, which will henceforth produce all print copies of Climate Change: The Facts 2017. In exciting news Connor Court will also be commissioning print runs in the UK and the US, and is also making arrangements for sales through bookshops in

How can we understand other cultures if we do not have a firm grasp of our own? This is the question both posed and answered by Dr Kevin Donnelly in The Culture of Freedom, the 5th addition to the IPA’s series of monographs on Western Civilisation. In this latest monograph, Dr Donnelly details the unique and special nature of Western culture.

“One bloke who sticks his head up is Andrew Bolt…writing with clarity and conviction.” – Alan Jones, 2GB. Andrew Bolt is Australia’s most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the