This book comes at an important moment not just in Australia’s cultural history, but in the history of the Western world. Denis White is a highly knowledgeable and skilled philosopher but, without insulting philosophy, he is more than a philosopher. He has not only been an academic, he has set up successful businesses, and he’s a strategic planner of considerable skill. When I was working in the Howard government, Denis’s experience advising Malcolm Fraser enabled him to make a proposal to me when I was Minister for Education about how Australia should pursue international education. As director of the Prime…