Flat White
How identity politics programs for failure
Safe spaces. Cry closets. Emotional support animals. While Australian campuses are yet to import such features the notion of restricting…
The Ramsay Centre and how our academic appeasers censor students’ right to learn
The University of Sydney’s jellyback Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence has given many excuses for why he may not accept the money…
Donald Trump’s honest politics
We are now a year and five months into the Trump presidency and the commentariat are still at a loss…
The concept of the university
David Long writes: In the December of 2001, a group of about 70 past students gathered in the St John’s…
Where have all our entrepreneurs gone?
Australia is has experienced a gigantic fall in entrepreneurship. Between 2003-05 and 2012-14, small business start-ups — as a percentage…
Memo Julie Bishop: get us out of the UNHCR
Political leadership: leading the way on values with action. Doing what is right. Explaining and defending it clearly. Examples: this…
Faith, truth, love – and beauty
Of all the left’s grievances against western civilisation, few are as old or as constant as its demonisation of Christianity.…
Halting the transgender trainwreck
A new transgender trainwreck in Australia was announced this week. New guidelines published in the Medical Journal of Australia give…
The unifying message of Eurydice Dixon
Thousands attended the candlelight vigil for Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne on Monday night. It was a gentle sign of unity…
How to deconstruct the gender pay gap
A curious trend is emerging from fashionable cafes all over the country, a trend to offer certain menu items as…
The deep state in deep do-do
Honestly, Trump has got the worst enemies, as John Podhoretz observes: Trump is fortunate in his political enemies. He ran against the…
Wankery and Western Civilisation
So, the fading prospect of a few dozen more kiddies quoting Locke and being able to distinguish between Mannerist and…
Unreasonable me
It is now perhaps trite to say that the centre-right has been too cowardly. But what about that the centre-right…
The 30-day hijab challenge
What do you mean you missed it? Ah well. You can always cover yourself in solidarity next year. ABC America…
The tiresome criticism of male critics
Simply because Hollywood is disappearing up its own arse, do we all have to follow suit? Can no one think…
It’s the end of the world as we know it
The most unlikely shaking of hands threatens to invert the world as we know it, but that may not be…
Turnbull Liberals can’t even spell the party name
The famous Menzies quote from Afternoon Light so beloved of the Liberal left begins “We took the name Liberal because…”…
Don’t forget the hosts
There was one not-terribly-well-acknowledged behind-the-scenes heroic figure during the Kim-Trump Singapore Summit. That was Singapore’s leader, the distinguished former Brigadier,…
Donald Trump and the fury of the impotent
The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown…
Another swamp that needs to be drained
Did you know that the Inspector General, the United States Justice Department’s watchdog for the FBI, released his report yesterday…
Towards a national register of engineers who are registered
Growth is good. Growth is essential. When company executives say that, however, they are talking about growth of productivity, or…
Dorothy Hewett: even libertines need limits
Dorothy Hewett is the perfect illustration of what happens when feminism turns feral. The Sydney Morning Herald has said that…
Launching ‘Howard: The Art of Persuasion’
Speech by the Editor, David Furse-Roberts. Tonight’s occasion and this book is all about honouring a great Australian and a…
Will the Cormack-Liberal jaw-jaw lead to more war-war?
At the moment I’m re-reading AJP Taylor’s classic The Origins of the Second World War. In his uniquely lucid and…
World Cup winning aid scamming
In many circumstances, poor people in the developing world would actually be better off if their dictators gave their foreign…
