Lad culture and sexual harassment in universities: it's about more than a 'few bad apples'
Sep 10, 2018 14:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Sexual harassment is widespread and affects the lives of women and girls, in particular, every day. In the face of calls to tackle sexual harassment and violence, the UK government committed to carry out a review to see if...
Censorship through the millennia. And trying to locate it in the 21st Century
Sep 10, 2018 13:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Once upon a time we all knew what censorship was, who the good and bad guys were, and what could be done to make the world a better place. Look up the noun censor in the Oxford English Dictionary and youll find an outline...
Sep 10, 2018 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The United States media has been awash with debates about civility in recent months after a number of officials in Donald Trumps administration have been heckled and shamed in public places. Commentators have claimed...

Survey: Americans like their jobs, not the US labour market
Sep 10, 2018 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The labor market in the US is quite different from most European countries, with less protection for workers, and stagnant wages for several decades, leading some analysts to declare that the American dream is dead. The...

Designing greener streets starts with finding room for bicycles and trees
Sep 09, 2018 21:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted in small sidewalk pits, where, if...
Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
Sep 02, 2018 22:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
If you were going to reduce a 150-page Productivity Commission examination of trends in Australian inequality to a few words, it would be nice if they werent ALP inequality claims sunk, or Progressive article of faith...
Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away
Aug 28, 2018 15:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The textbook has been declared dead many times over. Progressive educator John Dewey decried the text-book fetish back in the 1890s. Former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wished out loud for textbooks to become...