Centre for Ideas

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.

A message of hope from World Vision's Chief Advocate, Tim Costello at the 2019 Gandhi Oration.

Are there some ideas which are too dangerous to discuss?

Will the media be the death of our democracy?

Chuck Klosterman says the history of ideas is the history of people getting things wrong.