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Were the ASIO raids on the homes of various Australian residents late last year justified? To any self-respecting leftists the answer is instant. Of course not. How could it possibly [...]

One of the enduring puzzles of the political response to climate change is the polite behaviour of those who are most aware of the impending problems. For many years activists [...]

Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, London, Abacus, 1996. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled intellectual, scratching [...]

Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled intellectual, scratching his [...]

Kenan Malik, Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell us About Human Nature, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The [...]

Christopher Boehm, Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviour, Cambridge (Mass), Harvard University Press, 1999. On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled [...]

When the sponsors of the Ben Chifley Memorial Lecture invited Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson to deliver the `Light on the Hill' address in Bathurst, they probably didn't expect him to [...]

Though battered and bruised, the Left in Australia has good reason to be optimistic, or at least feel vindicated. The invasion of Iraq, as predicted, has turned into a murderous [...]