Notes from Australian Social Policy Conference
The 2026 Australian Social Policy Conference was held September 30 – October 2, 2026 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The conference provided a good overview of the …
Why David Brooks’ The Second Mountain missed the mark
The first two chapters of David Brooks’ The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (2019) were great. The rest had too much of an out-of-touch worldview to gain …
Review of How Minds Change by David McRaney
David McRaney’s book How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion (2022) offers a view of change that is both hopeful and frustrating. On the one hand, …