New Catallaxy

Politicians lie compulsively, it’s sometimes said. Maybe. Certainly they don’t let reality interfere too much with their promises before elections. At the same time, I am reluctant to badge them all as liars. For example, both George Bush senior and Paul Keating failed to deliver tax cuts which they’d promised. Tony Abbot introduced tax measures…

Just short of twelve months into the Pacific War, Australia’s east coast capital cities had succumbed to an invasion of sorts, albeit from friendly forces. While the influx of American personnel and equipment buoyed public morale and allowed the process of forward defence – in Papua and New Guinea – to begin, the economic and…

I suppose if I hadn’t read Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark Steyn, Douglas Murray, Irshad Manji, Robert Spencer, Oriana Fallaci, Mark Durie, Michel Houellebecq and number of others; if I hadn’t often dipped into the Koran and the Hadith to check on what malign drivel was being said and written; if I hadn’t heard of Charlie…

The latest additions Australians for Science & Freedom AND Free Speech Union Launch Melbourne Monday Nov 27 THE FREE SPEECH UNION OF AUSTRALIA Quadrant The Energy Realists   IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator    Jo Nova Centre for Independent Studies Conservative Vagabond      The Monarchists    The Free Press    Bettina Arndt    Menzies Research Centre The…