{"product_id":"9781922168092","title":"Really Dangerous Ideas","description":"The inspiration for this book of essays came from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI). The Sydney Opera House and the St James Ethics Centre have hosted FODI for four years. Although the organisers try to canvass ideas that appeal across the political spectrum, they are about as balanced as the ABC1 television's Q\u0026amp;A and as subtle as, 'when did you stop beating your wife?' For example, Israel is an apartheid state was a nice little starter in the 2012 Festival. Ilan Pappe an Israeli was invited to speak; he is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Who are the people who attend FODI and believe the nonsense they are fed?: those who forsake the world of markets and profit, who forsake religion, except for environmentalism, who forsake science, except in the service of climate change abatement policies. They are the people we call, and they also call, Progressives. The proposition in this book is that not much progress occurs when Progressives rule the policy roost.\u003cp\u003eThese are beaut little essays, written in an opinion style, easy to digest, indeed quite dangerous and perhaps the first of many volumes. \u003cbr\u003eAustralia needs liquid fuel security - David Archibald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 Arab countries one goal: destruction of Israel - Barry Cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world needs the Anglosphere - Peter Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchool choice matters to poor students - Kevin Donnelly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience matters in a post-modern world - James Franklin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligion matters for faith, hope and love - Ian Harper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownsize Canberra: remove federal income tax - John Humphreys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuropean Union as self-aggrandisement - Michael James.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbolish the Human Rights Commission - Gary Johns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiodiversity does not matter: revealed biodiversity matters - Eric Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeign investment matters to Australian workers - Asher Judah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBittersweet charity - Miranda Kiraly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamily is the fundamental unit of society - Richard Lyons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe need nation states - David Martin Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntellectuals do not matter - Greg Melleuish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinancial complacency in the face of three economic crises - Frank Milne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes respect matter? - Kerryn Pholi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrivatise the ABC - Tom Switzer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustralia should become a superpower - Cassandra Wilkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgressives: philosophy adrift without an anchor - Tim Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033465045232,"sku":"9781922168092","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922168092_p0.jpg?v=1763632565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922168092","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}