James Allan

Nairobi

Contributor at The Spectator

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Articles

Democratic Efficacy and the Unitary Executive – James R. Rogers

5 days ago | lawliberty.org | James Rogers |Rachel Lu |James Allan |Mark Hall

The central normative claim for the unitary executive is an irony. It claims that expanding presidential authority over the entire executive branch enhances rather than diminishes the system of checks and balances established in the US Constitution.
The Danger of AI’s Soft Landing – Charles T. Rubin

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Charles T. Rubin |Rachel Lu |James Allan |Mark Hall

I appreciate the attention given to my article by my interlocutors. I regret that the skeptical and anti-utopian thrust of my original essay was not clearer to them, Rachel Lomasky in particular. The last words of James Pethokoukis’s essay will serve as a good way to start clarifying. Although he concedes that there is a dystopian streak in the thought of some of the most enthusiastic promoters of AI, he denies that their vision will wholly guide the development of this technology.
The Righteous Bureaucrat? – John O. McGinnis

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Michael Lewis |John O. McGinnis |Rachel Lu |James Allan

Among its many innovations, The New Yorker turned the humble biographical sketch into “The Reporter at Large,” arresting prose that revealed what little-known people do and why their work matters.
Our Embattled Anglosphere – James Allan

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | James Allan

In a transit of Venus type event for the anglosphere, Canada, Britain, and Australia held elections within one week of each other in late March, early April. One way to understand these three elections is through the prism of what John O’Sullivan has described as the battle between “illiberal democracy” on the one side and “undemocratic liberalism” on the other. Both terms or concepts are slippery.
Trump's Lesson in Remedial Education – The Daily Sceptic

3 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

I have hesitated to respond article-by-article to Roger Partridge’s continuing attacks on the Trump administration beyond my initial response and rebuttal in these pages to his first anti-Trump piece. That was where I argued that Roger’s comparisons of Trump to Hitler, Mussolini and Hugo Chavez were, shall we say, a tad overdone.
Trump’s Lesson in Remedial Education

3 weeks ago | quadrant.org.au | James Allan

Trump is 'attacking' the universities, writes TDS case study Roger Partridge. Well, good. It's time someone held their feet to the fireMay 15 202515 minsThe long-term prospects for freedom of speech are dim.
Mock the media, and win

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | James Allan

Why do some people seem to think it’s a good idea to take political advice for our team from those over there clearly on the other team who loathe our politics? When put that way it seems a pretty obviously stupid idea, doesn’t it? That group over there has fundamentally different core values to us over here about cultural issues, how best to structure the economy, the optimum role government ought to play in the economy and in limiting speech, what a woman is, immigration policy, net zero, etc.
Australia's Liberal Party Only Has Itself to Blame for its Crushing Defeat by Labour – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. What Anglosphere country presently offers Right-of-centre voters the least hope for change? I don’t think there is much debate that the answer to that question is ‘Australia’.
Trump is Not to Blame for Carney's Win – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. The Left-of-centre (make that Left-of-the-Canadian-centre, which is mightily Left wing) Liberal Party has won Monday’s federal election in Canada. Mark Carney, who was substituted in to replace Justin Trudeau, brought the Liberals back from 20 points down in the polls. As of writing, Carney and the Liberals look likely to win 168 or 169 seats. That’s short of the needed 172 for a majority. The Poilievre Tories have won 145 or so seats.
Australia's Conservatives Are Paying the Price of Kowtowing to the Left – The Daily Sceptic

1 month ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. When the so-called ‘moderate’ MPs in a Westminster conservative political party remove a sitting Prime Minister from their own party, one who has delivered a majority government but is to the right of these moderates, the long-term effects are not good. Back in 1990, and after delivering 11 years of majority governments, Maggie Thatcher was knifed by the wets or moderates in the British Tory party. It is arguable that the party has never recovered.