The two great threats of 2020: coronavirus – and Keynes
The fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic leaves an economically threatening legacy of high budget deficits and public debt. Australian…
The rioters and the rentiers
It was inevitable that the wave of destructive rioting and looting that has swept through cities that are almost all…
The limits of Covid death statistics
As is often said, choose your statistics carefully and you can use them make just about any point you want…
Covid won’t kill the office
The rapidity and willingness with which workers have adopted and adapted to remote working has led some – including Rory…
The drugs that can help us defeat Covid-19
Covid-19 is here to stay. Whether it flickers in wait or rages like wildfire, it will remain part of our…
The EU’s new bond isn’t as solid as it seems
Its rescue fund will bail out the poorer states. It will fuel a rapid economic recovery. And perhaps most of…
Modi’s muted response to China is infuriating Indians
The mood in India simmers with retaliation following the death of at least 20 Indian soldiers in clashes with their…
What isn’t being said about the Reading attack victims?
Imagine if on Saturday evening a white neo-Nazi had stabbed three men to death. Imagine, furthermore, if in the wake…
Kim Yo Jong’s growing role is bad news for peace in Korea
The halcyon days of 2018 seem very distant. Two years ago, North Korea sent a delegation to the Pyeongchang winter…
The facts you haven’t heard on uni fees
Undoubtedly, many university students across the country have mixed feelings towards the Morrison government’s recent decision to shift $480 million of…
Coronavirus can’t kill capitalism
Mahatma Gandhi was once asked by a journalist what he thought of Western civilisation. He replied, “I think it would…
Yes, it’s time to defund NPR
When the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law in 1967, the stated goal was to provide public financial assistance…
Lockdown and the new Left Privilege
As a constitutional law scholar and legal theorist who appreciates our classical liberal tradition of constitutional government and the rule…
Teddy Roosevelt saw this mob coming
So now they have come for Teddy Roosevelt. The large bronze statue of TR on horseback, flanked by a black…
Labour’s path to victory lies in destroying the Lib Dems
It has become a truism that there are not enough liberal voters to get Labour a majority at the next…
The new inequality
It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after…
Here’s a new group you never even knew you were offending
BIPOC. We first read it as “biopic”, since it appeared in The SMAge in an article on the Sydney Film…
Wrongthink will be autocorrected
In response to the BLM movement, comedy, film and beer have been ‘cancelled’ due to their ‘problematic’ nature. The latest…
Queensland Labor: vandalising statutes
No, this is not just another pollie’s whinge. This is the duress alarm going off after an assault in Queensland…
The Greens new addition pushes the party harder left
Repeatedly, the Greens demonstrate they are the most dangerous party in the Australian political scene. Last week, the Greens voted…
Self-righteous vandals
Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so…
The conservative legal movement is dead
Imagine if Sonia Sotomayor, once she got on the Supreme Court, started ruling like Clarence Thomas. I know, I know,…
Is Attlee really more worthy than Churchill?
As the toxic furore over statues continues, a number of left-wingers yearn to see the monument to Winston Churchill in…
The unfair student fee lefties will never protest
As political commentators and the Twitter mob rage over the Morrison government’s rearrangement of higher education contributions, discussion is being…
Complaints about new uni fees? Consider them a free economics lesson
The concept of a loan is something we all deal with in our everyday lives. From loaning money to buy…
