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The unsuspecting origins of today’s liberty-loving youth
Last summer, the Oxford Dictionary declared its Word Of The Year for 2017: ‘youthquake’, defined as ‘a significant cultural, political,…
Boot Brisbane, kick Canberra
‘I am delighted to be speaking in Cairns, capital of the new State of North Queensland,’ I told the new…
Grievance studies gone to the dogs
If it wasn’t so serious the recent example of peer-reviewed journals being duped would be laughable. Confirming Orwell’s observation that…
The Facebook page of Dorian Gray
Technology is disruptive. It destroys and creates. It also defines us as human beings. No technology, though, even television, has…
Free speech exclusion zone
The recent new abortion clinic exclusion zone laws in NSW specify that it is illegal to obstruct and harass people…
Business/Robbery etc
Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s green-tainted global-warming-fixated Wentworth by-election, it won’t knock King Coal off his economy-boosting throne. And there…
Media mafia and mob rule
Most right-thinking people, of all political persuasions and of none, will have breathed a sigh of relief when they heard…
Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis
I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific…
The job of universities
Amelia is an academic at an Australian university. She reached out to me earlier this year after seeing my work…
Encouraging assimilation
The bedrock of a successful society is formed by common language, common values, and common goals. When societies lose sight…
Change everything? You bet
Naomi Klein from Canada oversees courses for tens of thousands of Australian high school students. She’s an anarcho-environmentalist mobilising grass-roots…
The Left vs Reasonable Doubt
At the risk of propelling readers to throw down this wonderful magazine in despair and shift to watching the latest…
Sharma shafts Shorten
Australia will soon face what is arguably one of the most important elections in its history, with Wentworth a crucial…
Fish or bear’s paw?
Last century, when Mao ruled China, shop assistants repeated daily, ‘We don’t have any more’ (Meiyou). I heard the phrase…
Reds on the red carpet
For the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who watched Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969, there are…
Castration of the male?
Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…
Troubled land
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’,…
The Left’s libricide
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so…
New prophets of doom
Picture a scene. A cowed audience is gathered to listen to a wise man. He tells them that he has…
Business/Robbery etc
You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…
Brash free speech
It’s taken a while, but the speech wars have reached New Zealand – and an Australian is in the thick…
Julia Gillard’s dropouts
In 2008, Julia Gillard announced that the Rudd government’s policy of uncapping university places marked the start of ‘a higher…
Dumbing down
The Commonwealth Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, must be congratulated for rejecting the curriculum model pushed by the OECD’s The…
The media vs the people
‘The separation of powers means that the legal system is answerable to no one,’ I said, speaking at the Sydney…
No real pain in Paris
When the infighting over the Liberal leadership raised the possibility that Australia might join the United States in exiting the…
