Review - Institute of Public Affairs

Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women by Christina Hoff Sommers Simon & Schuster, $19.95 Have you listened to Beethoven lately? According to a feminist musicologist at the University of Minnesota, Professor Susan McClary, the first movement...

THE vulgarian American President Lyndon Johnson used to say that President-tobe Gerald Ford was so dumb that he couldn't fart and chew gum at the same time. The deceitful way in which many in the media and academia reacted to accounts of Aboriginal cannibalism...

Shipping is still our principal means of getting Australia's exports to the rest of the world. So the effciency of the waterfront is still vital. But what has happened to waterfront reform recently? WITH apologies to Mark Twain, reports that the Australian...

ECONOMIC freedom is a concept which is at the same time evocative and provocative.To those who think of freedom in some sense as a good in itself it seems obviously attractive, even though others will see it as either inimical or irrelevant to some other...

AS Roger Kerr points out in his article later in this issue, economic reforms pass through three stages: resistance, grudging acknowledgement and final acceptance. That is, I think, true of individual economic reforms; but is it true of economic reform...

The New Communitarianism and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism by Bruce Frohnen University Press of Kansas At the end of his brief poem `Flyer's Fall', Wallace Stevens evokes a `dimension in which / We believe without belief, beyond belief'. Bruce Frohnen,...

In this issue we shall look at more sites of interest on the World Wide Web, including a bookshop where you can purchase those hard-to-get free enterprise volumes, and another 'bookshop' where the entire inventory is free. And we shall go beyond the...

THE first reaction that some readers will have when they see the title of this article will be to wonder whether links is an appropriate word to use in this context. Economic freedom is usually thought of as having to do with promoting economic efficiency...

THE WA ECONOMY At a steady annual 6 per cent, WA's rate of economic growth rivals the Asian 'Tiger' economies. Projected growth in WA's energy consumption, at 5 per cent a year, is over twice that of other States. Growth is being propelled by a renewed...