conservatism
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Conservatives have been too tolerant, too lenient, too accommodating for too long, so mild-mannered we've become victims to our own passivity. Look at Their ABC, to cite but one example, and the succession of Coalition ministers too weak to insist it honour its charter. Look around, we're reaping what we sowed -- and didn't sow
May 21, 2024
9 mins
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Studies purporting to establish why conservatives and so-called progressives think they way they do have been all the rage of late, with brain scans and the like alleged to have established that political orientation is influenced as much by biology as reason. An interesting notion, it is well worth a closer look
August 18, 2018
19 mins
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Thomas Hobbes anticipated the modern state in his advocacy of government grounded in a pragmatic compact between the people and sovereign. Add his part in an historical mystery involving Francis Bacon and what novelist could resist? Certainly not this one
August 14, 2018
21 mins
The latest
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While there is no historical evidence Edmund Burke played any direct part in British plans to establish a penal colony in New South Wales, his tradition of Whiggism arrived with the First Fleet and arguably shaped the character of colonial Australian liberalism
August 7, 2018
27 mins