Sometimes African rulers get so corrupt that Western aid donors go on strike. Take what Trump would call the shit-hole…

Every now and again the clouds part, a shaft of light breaks through and something up ahead is illuminated. In…

In his 1977 book The Age of Uncertainty, the American economist John Kenneth Galbraith depicted the great leaders of history…

The controversial University of Melbourne dance performance, Where We Stand, is an insight into the kind of divided society we…

Calls for a Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump reminded me that if anyone should be a Nobel Laureate, it…

When an historic Melbourne church went up in flames three years ago, the actress Rachel Griffiths, who’d made her First…

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a $1.04 billion piece of public policy and we treat it as exactly that: a…

Australia is now unwittingly linked even more closely with the dreary outer-London suburb of Penge. Not only was it the…

Here I am, back in Ecuador. Ecuadorians boast that the 6,310-metre high Mt Chimaborazo volcano protrudes 2,073 metres higher into…

The ability of our armed forces to defend the nation is being crippled, not through any fault of theirs, but…

An ancient dead white bloke, Aristotle, conceived a world with natural masters and servants, writing ‘That some should rule, and…

The size of the dog in the fight Can you imagine running on a party platform or manifesto with the…

As human beings, we often act in ways that are contradictory. Little inconsistencies are fine, but when they become major…

It’s official. Our decline into Third World status is accelerating. Our students languish behind those of Kazakhstan and Bulgaria in…

These days, whenever a local council comes up with a lunatic idea that bewilders ordinary Australians, you can be guaranteed…

I land at Ben-Gurion Airport just before midnight and begin the long ascent to Jerusalem. The headiness hits me immediately…

In 1942 Dr Joseph Needham was sent by the British government to China to study China’s universities and see what…

Last November I was lucky enough to have been invited to the Sydney launch of the Ramsay Centre for Western…

In the freakish universe of identity politics, there’s no creature sadder than the self-hating white person. All it takes for…

Political class failure undermines the standing of our governments. Every ignored voter concern, project failure and moment of spin leaves…

Israel’s government is often accused of preventing a two-state solution by its actions but rarely are the decisions of Hamas…

The revelations of unhindered Muslim sex-trafficking of thousands of young girls in British towns, including Rotherham, Rochdale and Oxford, are…

Imagine you are responsible for educating the children of China’s current leaders, many of whom may well go on to…

Surely it was obvious that, on any reasonable examination, Donald Trump was by far the better candidate in the 2016…

Australia’s current corporate leaders, the ‘managerial class’, are slowly destroying the capitalism that has made us such a great and…