Friday, July 29, 2016

Barry Goldwater is not responsible for The Donald

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Blaming The Donald on Sen. Barry Goldwater is essentially the claim of this Vox piece .  Barry Goldwater  (1909-1998) was the liberta...
Monday, July 25, 2016

A rebuke to crony unionism

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The Country Fire Authority (CFA) of Victoria has 60,000 volunteer firefighters to fight fires, particularly bushfires, outside the area c...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Public policy: discovery and bargaining or applied knowing?

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Is public policy a discovery process which takes into consideration the diverse interests, experiences and perspectives of the political n...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Free trade, expanding prosperity and technology dynamism are good things: but not everyone wins all the time.

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The following things are very much good things: free trade, technological dynamism and expanding global prosperity. Free trade because it g...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Yelling "bigot!" as a tool of bigotry

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A recent study concluded that Party and ideological animus in the US was significantly stronger than  (pdf) racial animus in the US. To p...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Brexit and EU failure

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The 52%-48% win for Brexit in the June 2016 referendum has already been framed many ways, but what should be an obvious one (though for man...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

The Donald is not a fascist; but the accusation itself brings dangers

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Further to my  previous post , the centrality of the ennobling effects of struggle and violence to fascism is demonstrated by its history, ...