Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Friday, August 26, 2016

The Hugo awards and the decay of Western civilisation

The Hugos , for those unaware, are (speculative fiction/science fiction/fantasy) SF awards voted on by people at Worldcon . Along with the...

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Defending openness with cognitive closure

The Economist recently had a piece claiming that the left-right divide had been overtaken by the open-closed divide . It had this to say...

Friday, July 29, 2016

Barry Goldwater is not responsible for The Donald

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

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?

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

Thursday, June 30, 2016

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

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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