John Anderson talks to Nick Cater about the cultural concerns that have driven him to seek a second career in Parliament.
John Anderson served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years between 1999 and 2005 under John Howard. He host the Conversations series on YouTube

#52 John Anderson: Reclaiming History

Joel Kotkin warns that traditional middle class aspirations and values such as family, nationhood and home ownership are under threat from a new class of oligarchs. 

In the US, this aristocracy consists of a handful of powerful tech companies isolated from and unaccountable to the broader community. Their power and privilege is sustained by a cosmopolitan breed of opinion makers who refuse to entertain dissenting perspectives and zealously inculcate the information media and higher education institutions with one-sided worldviews. 

Joel is the author of “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class”. The former registered Democrat became disillusioned with the party when it abandoned its traditional commitments to colour-blind racial equality, upward mobility and economic growth. a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University 

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#53 Joel Kotkin: Medieval Mindset

Claire Lehmann, the founding editor of Quillette, talks to Nick Cater about the philosophy that drove her to become an entrepreneur of free thought.

#54 Claire Lehmann: The business of free thinking

Former Liberal Party Leader Brendan Nelson on history, Liberal values and their defence as he launches David Kemp's book, A Liberal State. Followed by a reply from Dr Kemp.

#55 Brendan Nelson: Things Worth Fighting For

The National Curriculum epitomises almost everything that is wrong about modern schooling. It is an abstruse, cluttered  document that brushes aside the need for tried and tested teaching methods and is burdened with an ugly, post-modern agenda. 

Sociologist Frank Furedi joins Nick Cater discuss the cultural underpinnings of the educational malaise.

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#56 Frank Furedi: The Curriculum Engineers

Elizabeth Lee migrated to Australia as a child from South Korea with her parents. Today she leads the Canberra Liberals in the ACT assembly. She's proud of her heritage, but refuses to allow it to define her. 
In conversation with Nick Cater, Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre

#57 Elizabeth Lee: Beyond Diversity

Dr Brendan Nelson on what the 70-year history of the Anzus Alliance tells us about its future in a world of strategic uncertainty

Thought Network: Brendan Nelson

Dr Stephen Chavura of Campion College explains the intellectual virus known as critical race theory in conversation with Nick Cater.

#58 - Critical Condition: Stephen Chavura

Nick Cater and Fred Pawle on plastic straws, slacktivism, sugar taxes, GetUp!, tax-deductible donations and why our spying mobile phones spell trouble for the NBN.

Podcast 1, July 28 2018: Plastic straws, sugar taxes, GetUp! and tax-deductible donations

Nick Cater and Fred Pawle discuss school dropouts becoming undergraduates, the left's desperation to discredit Trump and the gender conventions of 1943, when Enid Lyons was elected.

Podcast 4, August 18 2018: school dropouts at uni, Trump's critics and the new gender conventions

Welcome to the office, Prime Minister Morrison. In your inbox, suggestions about how to handle energy, migration, unions, savings and other issues that will resonate with the electorate.

Podcast 5, August 25 2018: The new PM's policy agenda

Join us at the Enid Lyons Gala Dinner as we discuss the enduring significance of the first speech by a woman in the House of Representatives, and talk about Aussie accents with Lexi Sekuless, the brilliant actress who played Lyons in the re-enactment.

Enid Interviews Gala Interviews

Sean Jacobs, a security expert and part-time author, has just published a self-help book called Winners Don't Cheat, and a related story in Spectator Australia about the importance of rediscovering Menzies.

Was Menzies the Jordan Peterson of his time?

The British Conservative European Parliament member who rose to fame after calling Gordon Brown a "devalued Prime Minster of a devalued Government" talks to Nick Cater about the new pluralism and the standard of representation in democracies.

British Conservative European Parliament member Daniel Hannan on the new pluralism

Podcast 6: 31 August 2018 The new PM and bad student debts

The New Prime Minister delivers his first keynote address at a Menzies Research Centre Event in Albury and John Slater discussed how a Shorten Government would strike back the IR clock.

PODCAST 7: September 7 2018: PM's Albury address and Shorten strikes back the IR clock

Podcast 8, September 21 2018: Union finance, illegal drugs, voting for a living, e-cigarettes

A dramatic week for the ABC reveals that the organisation has almost completely lost sight of its core stakeholder: Australian taxpayers. And the hypocrisy of unionists is exposed. Again.

Podcast 9, 28/09/18: Maurice Newman says sell the ABC, and union pay gap hypocrisy exposed

Why Wentworth is an electoral outlier, sugar taxes fail, Labor is in trouble with negative gearing and a special interview with US transgender economics academic Deirdre McLoskey.

Podcast 10, October 27: negative gearing, sugar tax, Wentworth and a special transgender guest

Two world leaders of the post-Thatcher era, John Howard and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, discuss elites, populism, nationhood, Europe and the scourge of political correctness exclusively for the MRC.

John Howard and Stephen Harper in conversation

Brexit, Australian culture, humour and identity politics

Podcast 11: Brendan O'Neill and Nick Cater

As society becomes less religious, far from becoming more rational, it is becoming less so, former deputy prime minister John Anderson tells Nick Cater. And the most popular remedy - morality decreed by big government - will not end well.

Nick Cater and John Anderson

British political activist, blogger, columnist and creator of the ConservativeHome website Tim Montgomerie talks to Nick Cater about the various challenges facing centre-right politicians in Australia and Britain.

Tim Montgomerie and Nick Cater

The author of best-seller The Righteous Mind on the "consensual hallucination" of modern morality, and the sacred conventions that are necessary to bind all groups, religious or not.

Jonathan Haidt in conversation with Nick Cater

Campbell Newman and Nick Cater on the state of Queensland

Anastasia Lin was born in China and grew up in Canada. When she became Miss World Canada in 2015, she seized the opportunity to shine a light on the oppression of human rights in China. She explains to Nick Cater that the brutal communist regime does not reflect the true beauty of Chinese culture. She is currently in Sydney as a guest of the Centre for Independent Studies.

Anastasia Lin on true Chinese culture

The Reverend Peter Kurti explains to Nick Cater how the abortion debate has raised wider issues of choice, social duty and libertarianism.

Nick Cater and Peter Kurti discuss abortion

An exclusive conversation between John Howard and John Anderson from a Menzies Research Centre event in late 2019.

Conversation Between John Howard and John Anderson

A lecture by John Howard conducted at an event organised by the Page Research Centre and the Menzies Research Centre

John Howard Lecture 2019

Purchase Dr Stone's book 'Restoring Hope' here: https://quadrant.org.au/product/restoring-hope-practical-policies-to-revitalize-the-australian-economy/

Dr Andrew Stone on Australia's Response to the Coronavirus

Peter Kurti tells Nick Cater that government is the only entity with the resources to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But just important as the deployment of resources is the withdrawal once the pandemic is over.

Peter Kurti and Nick Cater on the role of the state in a pandemic

"The greatest problems in our society today are problems which are essentially moral or spiritual."

#33: Menzies Speech to Cambridge University, July 1968

Renowned author and commentator Douglas Murray joins Watercooler from the UK to discuss the revised edition his latest book ‘The Madness of Crowds’ and its critique of left-wing groupthink.

The Madness of Crowds is available from Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/the-madness-of-crowds-9781472979575/

#41 Douglas Murray: The Dangerous Dishonesty of the Modern Left

In the second of two podcasts, John Howard and John Anderson discuss the themes in Anderson’s Eighth John Howard Lecture which explores the corrosive influence of identity politics and the grim ideology underlying it.

#50 John Anderson: Disunity is Death Pt2

David Furse-Roberts joins Nick Cater to discuss his new book oratorical highlights from the speeches of the great Sir Robert Menzies. 

Menzies in His Own Words is published by Jeparit Press. Order at menziesrc.org/books

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