Unreliable ally
We should have sent a ship to the Middle East
Erasing Aristotle
Xi happily rewrites his own history, so why not ours?
Post-Camelot demise of the centre left
JFK would not recognise his party
Maestro Bernstein
What do we know about Leonard Bernstein, who did everything to popularise classical music and wrote the Broadway classic West…
Aussie life
Australia is becoming a secular society. Religion of the boring old traditional type our grandparents followed is on the way…
Language
A Speccie reader in Canberra (what has he done to deserve capital punishment?) asks the origin of the latest label…
Greatest leader since Ronald Reagan
Supreme Court must act to avoid disaster
Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine
Is Vladimir Putin trying to end his war in Ukraine? According to recent reports, the Kremlin has launched a new…