It would have been just one bad part of an overarching very silly policy. Exempting it from the policy regime I suppose makes the policy a b...

Back in 2012, Seamus Hogan and I were ...mildly sceptical... of proposals to build a giant convention centre in Christchurch. Seamus wrote: ...

A friend asked about my zealotry on age-gating social media and why internet anonymity/pseudonymity should be protected.  I sent this throug...

Locked at the bottom of a dark well is a beautiful-looking idea.  "Set discount rates to very low levels when thinking about intergener...

Being able to speak online freely, under a pseudonym, is an important backstop for freedom of speech. If government turns repressive, or ban...

Last week, on The Platform, Auckland Uni's Prof of Macroeconomics blamed my shop for the government's not adopting his proposal to c...

Kerry Howley has a superb piece in New York Magazine on the kids in San Francisco building the future. Houses and motels turned into dorms ...