Science and morality: woke universities have lost their way
Imagine if you can, a place where children are reared to adulthood, educated from kindergarten to year 12, before heading…
Covid has made America more divided than ever
I knew when I boarded the plane home to America on Boxing Day that I was heading to an unhappy…
Goodbye Bill de Blasio, New York-hating communist
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, Bill de Blasio — New York’s bumbling, mildly sinister but profoundly incompetent…
America is in a state of mass formation paralysis
Unless you happen to live under a rock, this week you became aware of Dr. Robert Malone. He’s a virologist…
The Pope is right: it is selfish to choose pets over children
Well, we’ve been terrifically amused and amusing at the expense of Pope Francis, who this week declared at a Vatican…
Welcome to the end of democracy
We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian…
Masks in schools: how convincing is the government’s evidence?
Why has the government changed its mind and asked children to wear masks in school? When Plan B was announced…
Why is Bilbo Baggins a fascist favourite?
If you were asked to think of a perfect fascist, never in a month of Sundays would you suggest Bilbo Baggins…
There’s nothing more frightening than a woman in politics
It is difficult to argue that women are the less capable gender when they have spent the last ten million…
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Reviving Australian liberalism
New Year is a time for resolutions and for reflecting on the year passed. After the last two years of…
Perrottet’s miracle
The NSW premier is a conviction politician who leads by example
What I did on my holiday
Wait and fume
Novak’s Ace
The tennis champ is chipping away at the mad mandates
Maori science beats woke myths
We need to return to empirical evidence
A bush Cardinal for Rome?
Our Peronist Pope likes to keep his prelates guessing
Good oil on palms
Environmental propaganda is bad news for poor farmers
Love factually
A professor of law’s New Year’s Eve wish
Euro notes
Testing times for the second Covid Christmas Those like me inclined to whinge about Europe’s reaction to Covid are regularly…
Business/Robbery, etc.
Learning to live with climate change
The Cardinal’s books
There are a thousand overtly artistic things to talk about at this summer moment including the new Sidney Nolan exhibition…
Kiwi life
Of the making of many books, the Bible says, ‘there is no end’. It’s starting to feel a bit like…
Aux bien pensants
Does Morrison want to lose? Does Scott Morrison plan to lose the election? Alienating Coalition rank-and-file by his surrender on…
Counting the costs
Two and a half years into his premiership, Boris Johnson has enjoyed no more than a month of that time…
The EU’s new emperor
What would Macron’s second term look like?
