When civilisations hesitate
Roosevelt, 1979, and the Iranian reckoning
The silent war in Africa
In 1885, General Charles Gordon stood in Khartoum facing an army led by a man who claimed divine authority. The…
The rock and the storm
Trump, stoicism, and the limits of legal attrition
How Hollywood lost the plot
There was a time when one could identify a film’s author within minutes. Not from the credits, but from the…
The road to Hell, revisited
Liberal Shibboleths and the refusal to think to the end
An open letter to Australian leadership
On the nature of radical evil and the duties of power
The inversion of evil
When everything is fascism, nothing is
This is not what it seems
Australia does not have a Jewish problem. It has a problem with how a confident society protects its citizens when…
That is no country for old men
The fall of Constantinople showed what happens when sovereignty is lost
Egypt’s blind spot
The role Cairo played in making Gaza’s war possible
The civilisational equation no one in Australia wants to face
Multiculturalism is approaching a tipping point
When ceasefires become a false end
History has taught one stubborn lesson: the page that ends the fighting is not the same thing as the page…
