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With adults controlled like this, protecting children can wait

Guest post by Jon Seymour Clive Hamilton does not believe, like the Kantians, that exercising rationality is a virtue. It shows. Hamilton does concede that rationality is useful to the extent that it allows one to avoid being manipulated by others against one’s better interests. The unstated corollary of this is that if one wishes...

With a public intellectual like this, who needs barbarians?

Guest post by Jon Seymour In a year or two from now Australians may wake up to find themselves living in a country unique amongst Western democracies – a country that has imposed mandatory filtering on all residential ISP feeds. It is unlikely that most will notice anything unusual about that particular day – any...