What will happen when the Liddell coal-fired power station closes, as planned in three years time? Calculate the amount of installed wind capacity required to replace 1.8 gigawatts when the fleet of wind turbines is operating at at its typical 10 per cent capacity: grid failure, blackouts and pain, lots of pain

This appears to be the first book of its kind, […]

Peter Boettke's F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy has beaten a path through several decades of intensive work by a great thinker to identify the most important and fruitful line of march for scholars and friends of liberal democracy. We are fortunate that classical liberalism has such an energetic champion

The anti-nuclear movement spawned today's radical environmentalism. Using the 'front group' tactic beloved of communist agitators, it fed lies to sympathetic reporters and whipped reasonable concerns into hair-trigger sensitivities. Its progeny is your last and ever more outrageous electricity bill

The methodology of John Cook's infamous paper purporting to demonstrate global warming must be real because almost all scientists believe in it has long since been demolished. But there is another flaw hitherto overlooked: the extent to which humans are thought responsible

Patrick White and God by Michael Giffin Cambridge Scholars, 2017, […]

Where do we draw a line against the intolerance of bad 'religions', of which the philosopher regarded Nazism as a secular variant? Today, militant Islam fits that same mould -- as do its left-liberal apologists, whose reverence for relativism is the offering laid before the altar of totalitarian militancy

The Sydney surveyor and poet R.D. FitzGerald (1902–87) played a […]

This essay was first published in Quadrant, April 2007, and is republished to celebrate Barzun’s 104^th birthday.