Renewable energy advocates cannot be cured by logic, facts, or debate

Or endless fragmentation?

Charles Dickens opened his timeless novel, set in the era of the French Revolution, with a paradox that echoes through…

In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, as victims’ families and Jewish organisations demand assurances from the Australian…

The country is utterly fed up

When nothing is sacred, everything becomes negotiable

From Düsseldorf: On hearing that a decade’s worth of university dropouts will be awarded a qualification at a Victorian university,…

Australia has one of the lowest fertility rates in its history

Why Labor must face a Royal Commission

From the seventh of Dey, the people of Iran once again stood before bullets and batons, chanting the name of…

The debate surrounding the use of shark nets in New South Wales provides a real-world example of a Carnivalesque inversion…

In a characteristically lucid and incisive essay written in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre, Helen Pluckrose argues in Islam,…

That such an evil and horrific act can be perpetuated – killing and injury so many innocent, peaceful, and law-abiding…

When a high-energy society opts for an unreliable, expensive grid

Those who say Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is trying for a ‘John Howard moment’ by turning the Bondi terrorist attack…

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission before it legislates on fear

2025 is drawing to a close. So, because everyone likes a listicle, let’s now trawl through some of the worst…

It’s a national security one

The long betrayal of the Australian people

I have been quiet for a week and a half. Now it is time to return to battle, a metaphorical…

Substack employs age-verification to the dismay of writers

Tate and Chatfield are not building culture; they are selling it

I bristle at the term Australian Gothic