The children under fire who rarely enter the record
International law turns a blind eye to these children
The illusion of ceasefire
The United States recently extended the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire for another 45 days, even as Hezbollah continued low-level attacks and maintained…
The torch of jazz has been relit by its prodigies
Growing up in Toronto, I was fortunate to live in a city that loved jazz. I knew, even as a…
Don’t miss the jazz renaissance happening all around you
Something miraculous is happening in jazz, and almost nobody seems aware of it. I came to jazz on my own.…
Why the Middle East cannot be understood – or repaired – through corrupted language
I. When Words Fail, Policy Follows Clear words produce clear thoughts. Clear thoughts produce coherent policy. When language decays, so…
After October 7, deterrence is no longer enough
The October 7 Hamas terrorist attack did more than expose a catastrophic intelligence failure. It exposed the limits of deterrence…
The limits of power
And the power behind the regime
Where is the October 7 tribunal?
Its perpetrators have remained beyond the reach of international law
E Pluribus Unum: The architecture of unity
When diversity is not our strength and nations start to unravel
The global climate confidence game
Science rarely lends itself to slogans...
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…
