When bombed in England bluff Bob Menzies Gave way to paranoiac frenzies; And other news like this to gladden The…

The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…

So despite being ‘well-meaning’ I am, according to Peter Manning in last week’s Sun-Herald, some sort of ‘racist’. This became…

Q&A is the ABC’s TV show on which on one famous occasion an anti-Iraq war activist threw his shoes at…

What can anyone do to change the world? Can any of us, for example, strike a blow that matters against…

When told of the death of the philosopher David Armstrong, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott had this to say: ‘David…

I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…

At going to press The Spectator Australia learnt of the death of David Armstrong, the greatest philosopher Australia has produced.…

You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…

So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…

I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…

Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister is further evidence for those who need it. Years ago the late John…

My modest proposal for the reform of the Labor party is to relieve Billy Shorten of his duties and make…