In 1961, Murray Rothbard, the most important libertarian economist of the 20th century, wrote about the evils of government statistics. “Statistics are the eyes and ears of the bureaucrat...
In recent years, there seems to have been an ever-increasing number of public controversies around some aspect of causing offence. From the Andrew Bolt case in Australia to the use of trigger...
‘It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, only that you tried and did your best.’ This is often said to help children come to terms with suffering a defeat of some sort. In fact...
Chris Berg on Flemming Rose’s ‘controversial’ stand for free speech Ten years ago in September 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons and sparked what the...
Adam Smith is a deeply underrated thinker. This might seem like a strange thing to say about the author of the Wealth of Nations, which is often described as free market capitalism’s foundational...
Complex life has existed on earth for about 550 million years. Complex human life, defined as substantial city dwelling peoples has a history of only 10,000 years or about .0002 per cent of the...
This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Director of the Legal Rights Project at the IPA, Simon Breheny. On 7 September 2013, Australians voted for minor and micro party...
John Roskam reviews one of the most important books of 2013 In 1964 Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country was published. Horne had one basic argument—‘Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by...
Jason Briant reviews The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics Without God by George Weigal (Basic Books, 2005, 202 pages) Anyone who takes an interest in foreign policy will know...
Mark Steyn: I’m honored to be asked to give the C D Kemp Lecture before members of the Institute he founded and which lives on after him. I’ve been in Australia for a couple of weeks on what I...
