Academia rooted
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences continues to be the standard bearer for everything that is…
Three years in an Aussie re-education camp
The next cohort of prospective undergraduates who plan on studying Australia’s history at university in 2019 should scrutinise the subject…
Tyranny of the T-bone
While England was in the middle of tearing itself apart during the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell and his fellow puritans…
The Left’s libricide
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so…
At uni with Mrs Potato Head
These days, whenever a local council comes up with a lunatic idea that bewilders ordinary Australians, you can be guaranteed…
The idiocy of cultural competence
A conference held last week by the University of Sydney’s taxpayer-funded National Centre for Cultural Competence has proven once and…
No sex please, we’re progressive
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity,…
How to win the West (back)
In the last few months, the concept of ‘Western Civilisation’ has received significant coverage in the Australian press. In the…
Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?
In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and…
Taxpayers notes
Wasting millions on Humanities grants This month, a number of university departments across Australia will be filled with the sound…
A new breed of ‘historian’
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…
A new breed of ‘historian’
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…
