October 2015 Volume LIX, Number 10, No. 520
Keynesianism, Le Corbusier and other matters
The Two Conservatisms
Censorship for a Transgressive Age
The Nation-State as Chameleon?
Refugees, Rights and Citizenship
Extraordinary Times in British Politics: A Conversation
Contents
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On Keynesianism SIR: In your July-August edition it is obvious […]October 1, 2015
11 mins
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It's going to be messy, Malcolm Turnbull's need to square the circle of his ruthlessly plotted ascent to the Liberal leadership with the revulsion now animating so many of his party's supporters. Be that as it may, there remains a role -- a key role -- for Tony Abbott
October 1, 2015
8 mins
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Unless definitions are narrow, rigid and clear, any attempt to limit freedom of expression because some opinions are deemed intolerable inevitably leads to the suppression of free and frank discussion. Unfortunately, our world is not made for narrow, rigid and clear definitionsOctober 7, 2015
8 mins
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If democracy is to be maintained in any recognisable form within self-sustaining states, the power of international rule-making will have to decline. As the Puritans' said of Charles I, the powers of the internationalists "have increased, are increasing, and ought to be diminished"October 29, 2015
43 mins
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The deracinated romantics who set the terms of much of the debate are enthralled with diversity, deeming it a virtue to declare oneself a citizen of the world. The influx of the supposed dispossessed is the cleansing of the colonial soul, the revenge of the oppressedOctober 9, 2015
11 mins
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In the four months since the UK election produced an […]
October 1, 2015
20 mins
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Angela Merkel’s remarkable offer to find room in Germany for legions of asylum seekers is not playing well in her own country. In Hungary and Europe's other doormat states, the consequences of her charity are fences, riots, wild scenes. Chaos has become the normOctober 22, 2015
13 mins
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Authorities insist on describing predators only as "Asian". In Banbury, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bristol, Burnley, Cambridge, Carlisle, Derby, Leeds, London, Manchester, Oldham, Oxford, Peterborough, Preston, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sheffield and Telford locals need no translationOctober 20, 2015
16 mins
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It is the basis of sound policy to regard the world as it is, not as we might wish it. This means recognising the value, sometimes, of flexibility when dealing with regimes whose values are objectionable or worse. Tehran and Moscow come immediately to mindOctober 26, 2015
15 mins
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The latest carnage in Turkey comes as President Erdogan prepares to face the voters in a contest it is almost impossible to believe he can win. Will the man who destroyed freedom of speech, debased the judiciary and rode roughshod over secularism accept the will of his people?October 13, 2015
22 mins
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It is common knowledge that most mainstream Protestant religious denominations […]
October 1, 2015
13 mins
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Dr John Burton, who served as Secretary to Australia’s Department […]
October 1, 2015
33 mins
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The city has been viewed as an arena for consumerism. […]
October 1, 2015
13 mins
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Family is no mere sociological construct, so we must stop treating it like one. It is how people live and thrive. It is natural. It carries with it certain obligations and duties. It is not malleable, no matter how hard those bent on re-defining the institution try to make it soOctober 28, 2015
9 mins
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When Shiva Naipaul had a fatal heart attack at his […]
October 1, 2015
17 mins
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It is beyond dispute that women achieve greater equality in countries that are more economically free. For the latest generation of Western feminists, that same freedom has been the cue to fixate on trivialities while pointedly ignoring the plight of less fortune sistersOctober 24, 2015
6 mins
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A naked girl is tied with wire to a bed-frame […]
October 1, 2015
15 mins
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I’m as mild mannered as I can be, And I’ve […]
October 1, 2015
11 mins
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“Not another bloody photo of a church!” It was early […]
October 1, 2015
30 mins
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to […]
October 1, 2015
12 mins
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Lila by Marilynne Robinson HarperCollins, 2014, 261 pages, $29.95 […]
October 1, 2015
9 mins
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Opinions and Reflections: A Free Mind at Work 1990–2015 by […]
October 1, 2015
8 mins
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Civil War: The History of England, Volume III by Peter […]
October 1, 2015
8 mins
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Former ALP national president Stephen Loosley's memoir sits better on the coffee table than the bookshelf, but for all its deficiencies in detailing a factional insider's guide to Left vs Right it does shed a certain variety of lightOctober 30, 2015
9 mins
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“The unforgotten Brian Fitzpatrick”, of whom I wrote last month, […]
October 1, 2015
10 mins
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I Put on a T-shirt I got up during […]
October 1, 2015
2 mins
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In Safe Hands A woven blanket wraps me round— […]
October 1, 2015
3 mins
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Beaten It seems I have beaten The horrible bowed […]
October 1, 2015
1 mins
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An Inconvenient Frogsicle Real frogs behave differently. —Paul Krugman […]
October 1, 2015
2 mins
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The Power of Love How beautiful the boy who […]
October 1, 2015
2 mins
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Soon I Will Stop Giving Unasked-for Advice to Giles Auty […]
October 1, 2015
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Visiting Basho’s Grave Gichuji Temple, Otsu i Modest, like […]
October 1, 2015
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