In 2016 a new Liberal senator, a mere stripling of twenty-eight years, had a foolproof idea for getting himself noticed. James Paterson told the media the...
Believe it or not, there is a field of academic inquiry devoted to not knowing. Ignorance studies, which sometimes dignifies itself as “agnotology,” hopes to do...
The 1988 Canadian federal election was fought over a perennial issue in Canadian politics: the relationship with the United States. The Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney...
“The results of pollster YouGov’s latest MRP model,” the ABC’s Casey Briggs announced at the beginning of the ABC’s Insiders on 16 February, “suggest the Coalition...
The pollster YouGov has begun releasing survey results generated by the relatively novel technique known as multilevel regression with post stratification, or MRP. Although it demands...
While it’s generally poor taste to mention an author’s age, it’s uplifting for many reasons to read a highly accomplished biography by a ninety-four-year-old writer dealing...
It’s a weekday afternoon in late February and I’m taking a nostalgic walk around the leafy streets of the suburb where I grew up. West Pymble,...
The Vatican has the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith. Australian schooling has AERO. New, not very important but very symptomatic, the Australian Education Research...
A couple of years ago a friend asked me to select a poem to read at her wedding. She was marrying her beloved girlfriend and there...
What does it take to be appointed as a cabinet secretary or other senior member of Donald Trump’s second administration? Expertise and experience in the pertinent...