A corroboree of jobbery: Daniel Andrews First People’s Assembly
On Monday morning, voting began to elect the new ‘First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria‘. This ‘voice for Aboriginal communities’ seeks…
There’s no such thing as a “potential human”, Jane
Jane Caro is one of those feminist exhibitionists who seem to have been dared to say something increasingly stupid or…
The Greens – and more – owe Pauline Hanson an apology on family law
Well, that escalated quickly… Before consideration of a family law inquiry had even reached the Senate, left-wing fury was unleashed.…
Don’t increase Newstart; first use the money to fight long term unemployment
As the government repeatedly says, the best form of welfare is a job, but when it comes to getting people…
What’s woke this week
Education, or what passes for it in the world of woke, has long been the natural habitat of cultural Marxist…
Standby for next week’s UN doomfest for climate crazies
The push is on ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Summit to be held next week in New York. Although…
Like cheap, clean energy? You’ll love nuclear
There is no greater act of economic or environmental vandalism in Australian history than our nonsensical prohibition on nuclear power.…
Jacinta Price: why let the left lower standards for Indigenous Australians?
The vast majority of Australians — including many Australians of Aboriginal descent — know very little of the reality of…
Robert C. O’Brien, Trump’s good soldier
With the appointment of Robert C. O’Brien to serve as national security adviser, Donald Trump will once more disappoint his…
What Corbyn’s Brexit policy means for a general election
Jeremy Corbyn has dashed the hopes of certain members of his shadow cabinet this morning with a Guardian op-ed in…
Tulsi Gabbard, conservative crush
Conservative sadbois like two things: hot moms and Middle Eastern despots. Enter Tulsi Gabbard, the comely representative for Hawaii’s second…
Inside the eco-socialist paradise of the Green party primary
The Green party’s 2016 presidential ticket, headed by Jill Stein, captured just about 1 percent of the national popular vote,…
Deserter dads
Nearly everyone in New Zealand has been made to feel they could play a part in the forthcoming Royal Commission…
Worse than 18C
The federal government’s draft religious discrimination bill highlights – no doubt unconsciously – some of the limitations on freedom of…
Iran’s hostage chess
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad,’ wrote Mark…
Campus of dunces
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind (1987) showed higher education failing democracy and impoverishing students. Forty years later,…
Our unique opportunity
Australia, more than any other, is a child of the two great English-speaking nations. They have for two centuries successively…
Deal or no deal
No longer can Brexit be considered inevitable: British democracy is on life support, and there are many who want to…
Business/Robbery etc
‘It was just a good title for a book’, Graham Richardson protested last week, after a federal Labor front-bencher blamed…
Not the Right appointment
From President Eisenhower’s time in office to the end of President Obama’s, there were 27 vacancies on the Supreme Court…
In Vogue
A kangaroo on the beach with a model was the unsubtle cover of Vogue in December 1965. It will be…
David McVicar’s production of The Marriage of Figaro
It was hailed as a masterpiece at its premiere in Vienna in 1786; it still is a masterpiece. The Marriage…
Cast members Jonny Carr and Geraldine Hakewell
John Howard and Tom Stoppard have something quite wonderful and rare in common: they are both members of the Order…
Jeffrey Smart exhibition Constructed World
There are just a few weeks left to catch the Jeffrey Smart exhibition Constructed World at the Art Gallery of…
The best of journeys: Justin Marozzi’s monumental trek through the history of the Muslim world
This impressively clever, careful, and often beautiful book is the best sort of journey. It takes us through 15 cities…
Rushdie at his best – Quichotte reviewed
It’s hard to get your head around Salman Rushdie’s latest novel Quichotte, which has been shortlisted for the Booker. It’s…
Welcome back to Gilead: Margaret Atwood’s triumphant reclaiming of her work
‘Penises,’ Aunt Lydia muses, ‘them again.’ Penises are always causing trouble, even in the God-fearing dystopian state of Gilead. The…
The great American trauma in minute detail
Why, I asked some months back in these pages, do the protagonists in American fiction these days seem so lost?…
Rod Liddle on Brexit: The Great Betrayal reviewed
Rod Liddle has taken a huge gamble with this book. It could be out of date very soon. The book’s…
Two faces of a single calamity: how the war against inequality backfired dramatically
In 2015, Daniel Markovits, a professor at Yale Law School, delivered a commencement address to that year’s graduating class in…
The tsunami of stuff we have and want is based on culture and economics
In 1993, the photographer Peter Menzel travelled across the globe to capture our material world. In each country, he asked…
Hitler’s legacy: two books examine different aspects of the horror that was Germany, 1945
Two new books offer very different takes on the utter ruination of Germany in 1945. Each in its own way…