One Nation is back on top of Newspoll: 30 per cent primary, Labor 29, the Coalition 19. The survey closed before Saturday's Secret Harbour by-election, which then handed Pauline Hanson her first lower-house seat in Western Australia, a safe Labor district, gone. Anthony Albanese's response was not a housing speech. It was a warning about "dishonest...

The Right has spent two years congratulating itself on a funeral. DEI offices renamed themselves. Fortune 500 pages got quieter. A few universities discovered the First Amendment after they lost in court. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even said the quiet part: "Woke 1 was crazy," meaning the 2020 carnival of defund-the-police and ritual self-accusation....

The latest Microsoft privacy controversy begins with what initially looks like a success story for modern digital policing. American authorities were pursuing an alleged member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group, and the suspect appears to have taken the sort of precautions that people are routinely told will conceal their identity ...

Professor Ian Brighthope has put forward an argument that deserves to be taken far more seriously than the scientific establishment is likely to take it. His proposition is deliberately radical: humanity should prohibit the deliberate genetic manipulation of viruses, bacteria and other self-replicating organisms because nobody has the moral authori...

Jason Arday is dead. That is the first fact, and it is not a punchline. He was found unresponsive at home in Battersea on 14 August, nine days after he resigned from Cambridge. The coroner has opened an inquest into an unnatural death. His family say a campaign of misinformation broke a gentle man. Tens of thousands turned out at vigils. The Prime ...

Melbourne is not dying: just yet. It is being enlarged faster than it can be made to work. That is the whole argument, and it does not require a cartoon villain. It requires a city of 5.44 million that just added 105,000 people in a year, the largest capital-city increase in the country, while the official paths still point at 8 million by mid-cent...

Benedict Beckeld is a philosopher based in New York City, trained in philosophy and classical philology at Heidelberg, and Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations (Cornell University Press / Northern Illinois, 2022) is the book that put a usable name on a mood everyone can see and few in the universities will admit. Sir Ro...

The title of this article may immediately invite accusations of racism. Since nothing could be further from the truth, in my case, than such an accusation, let me begin with a crucial distinction, which I shall then explain: that between racial realism and what I will call ethnic memory. This distinction can help clarify a number of political dispu...

The survival lessons of the Great Depression make fascinating reading because underneath the black-and-white photographs, soup kitchens and patched trousers lies a truth modern affluent societies prefer to forget: human beings can adjust their standard of living enormously when circumstances force them to do so. What looks indispensable during pros...

The reparations industry does not begin with a ledger of particular crimes. It begins with a story about the world. The story says the modern condition, long life, surplus food, electricity, antibiotics, courts that outlast a chieftain, is the natural state of humanity, and that the West grew rich only by taking that state away from everyone else. ...

England and Wales abolished the old blasphemy offences in 2008. The statute book looked adult for a while. Then the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and a string of magistrates rebuilt the offence without the embarrassing name. They used public-order law, "grossly offensive" communications, and religious aggravation. The sacred text that now d...

It's one of the odder features of Western life: an economic system built on private ownership and market competition spends enormous sums cultivating, credentialing, and materially supporting the very people who dedicate their careers to arguing it should be dismantled. Elite universities with billion-dollar endowments, funded by donors who made th...

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from holding unpopular views in rooms that assume everyone agrees with them. If you are a conservative writer, academic, or commentator working in media, publishing, or higher education, you already know this exhaustion. None of this makes you special, and none of it excuses self-pity. But it is r...

 Patricia Karvelas's ABC analysis (link below), admits the thing the majors want to shrink: One Nation is no longer a Coalition headache. It can take Labor's furniture. Secret Harbour was not a quirky protest. It was a once-safe Labor seat in Perth's south, held in that part of the map since 1989, and it fell to gym owner Luke Herdegen. Hanson...

Elon Musk has built a small cottage industry out of two claims that refuse to sit in the same room together. The first is that a future built on Optimus units and humanoid labour will make work optional, goods nearly free, and scarcity itself obsolete. The second, delivered in the same breath or the same week, is that free bread is what killed Rome...

The capture of the university system by the Left across the West, was not a mood that drifted in with the weather. It was a project with a theory, a timetable measured in careers rather than news cycles, and a target that made perfect sense once you stopped thinking of the campus as a library with dorms. Control the places that mint the professiona...

 It was 53 years ago that Jean Raspail wrote The Camp of the Saints in an attempt to wake up the French nation to the future challenge they would face. The French response was to dismiss Raspail's effort as a dystopian novel and do nothing. Today five decades later Marine Le Pen, leader of France's only French nationalist party, is the most po...

There is a peculiar madness that grips a civilisation when it can no longer distinguish between a home and a hotel, between a family table and an open buffet, between a nation and a refugee camp. This is precisely where the West finds itself in the third decade of the twenty-first century, and Senator Schmitt's blunt formulation cuts through decade...

Breaking news from the cultural emergency room: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is racist. Well, if old Huck is a racist, I am a monkey's uncle! Mark Twain's troublesome little boy has been floating down the Mississippi for nearly a century and a half, and somehow the guardians of modern sensitivity have finally caught up with him. One of Americ...

There is something irresistible about believing that one happens to be alive at the turning point of history. Ordinary generations merely live and die; fortunate generations witness the transformation of civilisation. Nathan Gardels, introducing the latest issue of Noema, raises precisely this possibility. Artificial intelligence, synthetic biology...