Australia’s new online-safety proposals are being sold as protection and choice. On their own, many are defensible. But viewed alongside earlier misinformation laws and similar moves in the UK, a bigger question emerges: how much influence should governments have over what information platforms suppress, prioritise or define as harmful?
AfD’s surge in Saxony-Anhalt is part of a broader shift across Western democracies. But does rising support for populist parties mean voters themselves have become more extreme, or that many feel the political mainstream has stopped listening?
The serious question is not whether socialism has good intentions. It is whether replacing markets, private ownership and dispersed decision-making with political control produces better outcomes. History’s answer is remarkably consistent. Socialism is easy to support in the abstract. It…
How strong was the evidence that Iran was moving towards a nuclear weapon and did it justify Israeli and United States military action?
Good intentions may explain why people support a policy, but they do not prove that it works. Political ideas should be judged by their measurable outcomes, trade-offs and unintended consequences.
Political disagreement becomes destructive when proving the other side wrong matters more than understanding the evidence, finding common ground and solving the problem.
