Raining missiles, reigning lies: flags, ceasefires, and ‘proportionality’
The gentle, lispy tones of Tony Burke, Minister for the Arts and Workplace relations in the Albanese government, belie the…
Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university
Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…
The Voice of unreason: no easy way out of this mess
The Voice will likely fail. Possibly at referendum, but, if it succeeds at clearing that hurdle, it will fail in…
An incompetent Qantas is preoccupied with politics
There are few companies more conspicuously preoccupied with politics than Qantas. Maybe it’s impossible to be a national carrier without…
Conservatism and the virtue of saying ‘No’
William F. Buckley said famously that: ‘A conservative is someone who stands athwart history yelling stop! at a time when no…
The expensive illness in Australia’s elite schools
A decadent managerial culture has sunk its unwelcome claws into Australian private schooling
I think, therefore I am: the crisis of modernity and transgenderism
René Descartes could not have foreseen the insanity of the 21st Century transgender movement when he wrote, ‘I think, therefore…
Affirmative action is dead in US universities
Universities in the US, by law, will no longer be allowed to discriminate to allow access to college education based…
The crisis of liberal illiteracy
Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is in hot water over this unwelcome bit of advice to President Donald…
Love diversity, equity, and inclusion – or else
A decade ago, when I returned to University in my home state of Queensland to train as a teacher, a…
The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West
What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations…
On gambling, we shall all be Catholics
Former ClubsNSW CEO Josh Landis made a now infamous comment (that he has apologised for) suggesting NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet…
‘Australian Capitalism’: Jim’s philosophising swells rivers of sorrow
Jim Chalmers, Treasurer of Australia, has used his summer to produce a paean to statism. Chalmers’ essay, Capitalism after the…
Trump won’t change, but the world will
An uncharacteristically reserved Donald Trump took to the Mar-a-Lago stage on Tuesday night. Perhaps smarting from a less-than-stellar turn by…
Sydney: murdered by Brutalism and Modernism
I’m a relative novice, but I imagine one of the best things about being murdered with a jagged knife is…
The Midterms: America faces its Litmus Election
In the 14th Century, Spanish chemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova discovered that litmus, a compound derived from natural bacteria, would…
Decline and Fall: Biden embraces childhood trans rights
There was a time not so long ago when educated men and women read Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and…
The Lady’s for turning … and Britain is burning
One knows better than to compare today’s politicians to great figures of the past. But in the case of Liz…
Reflections on the revolution in Britain
Like periscoped sheep, the palace hordes startled back and forth, lunging the gates, devices bobbing – flopping above the fray…
War in the Pacific: Australia’s Sino-American fallacy
The Chinese Communist Party is gnashing its teeth at the theater of history, desperate to enter stage left as King,…
Trump in chains
For all their affectations to equality, republicanism, and the eschewing of class systems, Americans nonetheless respect hierarchical privilege. No ‘class’…
It’s the economy, stupid…
Quite the wreckage, huh? 17 seats down, a host of future stars put to the sword, and the Prime Minister…
Australian Conservatism: comfortable, relaxed and in mortal danger
A quarter of a century ago, John Howard said he wanted Australians to be comfortable and relaxed about their history,…
American nightmare: DeSantis, Trump, and ‘Hillary 2024’
Governor Ron DeSantis is far too good at his job. Florida is enjoying such wild success it’s throwing the entire…
