David Long

Imagine for a moment that you have been given a special power. I don’t mean one of those super powers…

There are some things that it is difficult to face up to on your own. Boring Hollywood movies is one…

Here’s a statistic you wouldn’t read about – at least not in any medical association playbook. John Hopkins University in…

You get a glimpse of the real purpose of education when you look at the liberal arts curriculum offered here…

George Papadopoulos has gone to gaol, it seems, for lying to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Scott Morrison is going into…

I have read that Pope Francis believes that climate change is such a big danger to the planet that it could turn…

It’s time once again, good people, to take out your pen and paper (or your QWERTY keyboard and computer) and…

You probably thought it was not possible to accurately equate the relations between nation states with personal human relationships. That…

We have entered an age of unreason; an age when the evidence of our senses and the sentences and words…

I want to be upfront with this. There will be no beating around the bush. I want to see the…

As Scott Morrison tours the Queensland coastline, his mind is most probably wandering across a range of policies that he…

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read that links the letters of the alphabet, syllables and words to…

Scott Morrison really has his work well and truly cut if he intends to protect our religious freedom without antagonising…

Have you ever wondered how much money is collected by those mobs of young men and women who patrol the…

You have had plenty of time to think about it. Tell me, madam, why did you get married? You don’t…

Last week your ABC ran a fact-check on a statement by Senator Matt Canavan — well, it actually had a…

I am sure you all remember that old poem by the German Lutheran Pastor, Martin Niemöller. No? Then let me…

It seems that sex is on everyone’s mind these days. There is, of course, that great free intercourse provider, otherwise…

If there is one thing that a variety of media provides, it is diversity of detail and greater transparency. That…

It is a great pity that the Australian Senate does not have the same sort of inquisitorial role that the…

Everyone who has ever read or even started to read Plato’s Republic, the philosophical text by that dead white male…

If we assume for the moment that the zenith of Western Civilisation since at least the fourth century BC has…

When Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former strategist, described Australia on Your ABC as the “canary in the mineshaft”; that it…

When I was growing up, a popular folk song written and recorded by Pete Seeger lamented “Where have all the…

Well, the King is not dead, but he has been put to rest. Even as he was on the way…