Neil McInnes

Essays

Society

Requiem for a Genocide

| 06.01.04

Keith Windschuttle revises the revisionists and does the post-colonial "history" of Tasmania a good turn--on its head.

Society

Popper's Return Engagement

| 03.01.02

Karl Popper, the champion of the open society, still speaks to the struggle between tolerance and repression in an era of globalization and in our post-September 11 world.

Economics

The Long Goodbye

| 06.01.01

Ten years after its death, communism's elegists--Eric Hobsbawn chief among them--have yet to give up the ghost.

Society

A Skeptical Conservative

| 09.01.00

Rationalism and politics is a combustible mixture. We know this from history. Oakeshott knew it all along.

Society

Volkogonov's Journey

| 12.01.96

The "park of fallen heroes" is the ironical name Muscovites have given to the patch of waste land across Krymsky Val from Gorky Park, where the statues of Soviet leaders are dumped.

Reviews

Society

Koestler and His Jewish Thesis

| 09.01.99

A malign biography of a flawed but hugely gifted man.

Economics

Hayek's Slippery Slope

| 03.01.98

Friedrich Hayek's ideas,  particularly those set out in The Road to Serfdom, have been subject to extraordinary ups and downs in learned, as well as in popular and political, estimation.

Society

The Great Doomsayer: Oswald Spengler Reconsidered

| 06.01.97

Today, looking back, The Decline of the West can be seen to stand at the gate whereby entered such pervasive intellectual fashions as postmodernist relativism, multiculturalism, and hostile suspicion of dead white European males.

Society

Ortega and the Myth of the Mass

| 06.01.96

Many are inclined to give José Ortega y Gasset credit for prescience that he does not deserve.

Economics

One Who Made A Revolution, Review of Robert Skidelsky and John Maynard Keynes' The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937

| 09.01.94

Review of Robert Skidelsky and John Maynard Keynes' The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937(New York: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994).

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