The Greens turn red
The Green party has nominated Howie Hawkins to the presidency of the United States. But Hawkins’s victory has seemed preordained…
The Democrats want a Cold War, but will they get a civil war?
With the Swamp lovingly tended under the Obama/Biden administration, the Democrats sense a chance to end President Trump and carry…
New York vs NRA — and the silencing of dissent
On Thursday morning, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association. According to James,…
Forget Pericles and pals. What matters is that Victorians aren’t getting answers from their government
As early reports of the devastation of Pearl Harbor filtered into Prime Minister John Curtin’s office that fateful day in…
Kohler QC and Modern Monetary Theory
Ah. Now we get it. Alan Kohler isn’t pushing Modern Monetary Theory — despite all appearances to the contrary. No,…
No fuel, no fires.
The independent New South Wales bushfire inquiry — led by former NSW Police deputy commissioner Dave Owens and former NSW…
Herd immunity is still key in the fight against Covid-19
Open or close? Open the schools and close the pubs? Open bowling alleys but not skating rinks? Allow open restaurants…
Why I am not a libertarian but keep getting called one – and why you should care
It started five or six years ago. I was defending what I took to be some basic value of mainstream…
Why are black Americans likelier to die of COVID than Latinos?
Only part of the dramatic racial differences in age-adjusted COVID-19 death rates can be explained by racial differences. The remainder reflects a substantially lower black…
Meet Gen Z GOP, a group of confused liberals
Meet the hip new Republican youth group: ‘Gen Z GOP’. Media outlets welcomed the group with open arms. NeverTrumper Bill…
The great koala scam
Europeans learnt of koalas a decade after they arrived. John Price was shown some dung by a convict who’d lived…
Will HSBC protect its pro-democracy staff in Hong Kong?
Noel Quinn, the chief executive of HSBC, declines to say whether his bank will disown pro-democracy staff who fall foul…
State of disastrous decision-making
Wherever you are on the political spectrum, one word that should strike fear into you is ‘curfew’. Curfews are tools…
Brown study
I don’t like praising politicians, but I feel Scott Morrison and his colleagues and even the premiers have been treated…
Latham’s law
Worried about Covid or skyrocketing unemployment? Maybe you’ve lost your job or your business has had to close? Worry no…
‘Sonic anti-colonialism’ sounds a bit off
When will the Coalition stand up for the taxpayer and stop giving grants to Marxist academics?
A darkling plain
Thirty years ago, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its puppet regimes unleashed widespread celebration, especially among their suppressed…
Australian arts
Back in my now rather distant days of regular residence in Britain, I listened regularly to a radio program called…
James Darling striding the shores of Limebuners’ Bay
‘Just as I am’ is the recurrent opening line of a hymn written in 1835 by Charlotte Elliott. It was…
