Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliant new comic device
Sacha Baron Cohen’s recent anti-defamation league speech was quite a performance, even by his standards. In shrill, bordering on hysterical…
Science friction
In recent weeks, we have seen yet another public statement from scientists (in the journal Bioscience) prophesying an approaching climate…
Greta’s familiar tune
When I listened to Greta Thunberg’s recent speech at the UN, I was struck by the immediacy of her dystopian…
Harvard’s racist selection process
You might be surprised to know that Harvard University, along with other American tertiary institutions, routinely and explicitly discriminates on…
Schumpeter’s vision returns
A prominent economist has written that capitalism is in crisis. Its wealth creation engine is sputtering. Those at the head…
Australian notes
On academic freedom The dismissal of Tim Anderson from his academic post at the University of Sydney has triggered a…
New prophets of doom
Picture a scene. A cowed audience is gathered to listen to a wise man. He tells them that he has…
My civilisation is better than yours
Am I the only one who finds the Ramsay Western civilisation controversy unedifying? As I read the warring op-eds I…
Over-rating Marx
Was Karl Max over-rated as a thinker? It was hard not to ask that (provocative) question as I read the…
The death of expertise
It must have been a joke. The other day, I was looking through the Harvard Magazine and saw a piece…
