Britain had a Nazi streak. Ronald Reagan embraced terrorism to win the Cold War. Teddy Roosevelt was a white supremacist warmonger. And 9/11 was caused by an “American jihad”.

Capitalism rewards greed and selfishness—but assuming it is our nature to act this way is a wrongheaded view of human nature.

How many conservative professors can you count on one hand? They are a rare breed in Australian academia. This reviewer sometimes claims to be the nation’s most-read centre-right political scientist ...