Dante Alighieri: a giant of the West and a man for our times
Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as…
The very American heroism of Todd Beamer
Twenty years ago today, on the morning of 11 September 2001, 32-year-old Todd Beamer boarded a United Airlines flight at Newark,…
The rise of Taliban Twitter
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was swift, but this victory wasn’t won overnight. For years, the Taliban has been waging…
You can’t keep an American exceptionalist down
Like millions of other Americans I was riveted by the images of chaos and despair at the Kabul airport as US…
Does Nicola Sturgeon care more about oil revenue or climate change?
‘Now, as I’ve hopefully made clear throughout all of my remarks, the North Sea will continue to produce oil for…
Rosie Duffield to miss Labour conference due to security concerns
Labour conferences have been fractious affairs in recent years. Tensions between various factions have often spilled over onto the conference…
Amen to Abbott
The Twitteratti have been in a tizz since Wednesday when a busybody got a shot of Tony Abbott, sans mask,…
The West should rediscover Hayek and end the lockdowns
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is famed as one of the most effective takedowns of the socialist planned economy. Although…
Congress pretends to hold the Pentagon accountable
The Biden administration’s latest $3.5 trillion spending proposal continues to attract attention. With a hodgepodge of Democratic priorities ranging from…
Josh Frydenberg defends the indefensible with JobKeeper
How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres. I tend not…
Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is an affront to American liberty
Joe Biden is telling the unvaccinated that the time for waiting is over. In his signature ‘get-off-my-lawn!’ old-man yelling voice, the exhausted…
The War on Terror is a war of religion
Compare the world 20 years after the 9/11 attacks to the world two decades after Pearl Harbor. World War Two…
Do vaccines pose a risk to young boys?
Should we be vaccinating children against Covid-19? While some countries have been enthusiastically administering vaccines to under-18s — greatly contributing…
She’ll get blisters
Yet again this magazine has proven uniquely prescient in its warnings and its advice, a claim that regular subscribers will…
Covid notes
Covid kilos Throughout this pandemic, our leaders have bombarded us with slogans about the importance of social distancing, vaccinations, staying…
The return of the racism versus rape debate
Is the West really prepared for an influx of angry young male Afghan refugees?
Thomas Mann
And so Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge is Melbourne’s musical-in- waiting. The show that can only go on when we’re 80…
