Centre for Ideas

What hope is there for racial equality in Australia and the United States?

How did democracy come to be defined as selfish individualism? 

How can one begin to write about the horrors of war?

How should we understand this age of anger, and what kind of transformative thinking will help us find our way out of it?

People are hedonists, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. So why do we have an appetite for spicy foods, hot baths, and BDSM?

The heated culture wars of the 1990s are back – the modern battle ground is the internet.

Privacy is selfish – which is why its days as a personal privilege are numbered.

If the age of the internet has taught us anything, it is that there is a big difference between appearance and reality.

What was it like to give a voice to ISIS?

What is a former public defender and law professor doing taking LSD?

Is it time to stop sitting on the fence and choose China?

What we don’t understand often looks dangerous, and the barriers of our own anxieties are hard to get over.