There is an appealingly simple principle buried deep within the law: if you choose to keep something unusually dangerous, you should not be surprised when the law makes you responsible when it gets loose and hurts somebody: Domestic Animals Act 1994 (Victoria). The Economist has raised the intriguing question of whether artificial-intelligence labo...

In the parasitic, paranoid halls of environmental alarmism, where every gust of wind is a harbinger of doom and every puddle a rising tide, a new, insidious terror has taken root. It isn't the scorching heat we were promised, nor the drought that refuses to arrive. No, the crisis facing our modern planet is far more insidious: it is getting too gre...

Censorship of the Public's Voice in Vaccination Policies Are Mandatory Vaccination Policies the beginning of the medical dictatorship that is warned about in this anonymous quote? The point is not whether Benjamin Rush made this statement but that the statement is true. Currently, Jayden Beale, a legal officer who works for the government, is fight...

Fukuyama's "End of History" thesis never claimed wars would literally stop. It argued that, after the Cold War, liberal democracy + market economies had become the final form of human government, no viable ideological alternative remained that could seriously challenge it on a civilisational scale. The big contests over how humans should organise p...

In early August 2026, researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute published work in Science showing that genome language models (Evo 1 and Evo 2) could generate complete, novel bacteriophage genomes never seen in nature. Of the designs they selected and synthesized, sixteen proved viable in the laboratory: they infected E. coli, replic...

       1 Corinthians 13:12 offers a powerful statement about the limits of human knowledge. Paul's image of seeing dimly in a mirror suggests that our present understanding of reality is incomplete and imperfect. We can know genuine truths, but we do not see the whole picture. Full understanding belongs to the future, when we wi...

Sabine Hossenfelder has drawn attention to a problem with high-containment biological laboratories that deserves far more public discussion. The popular picture of a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory is reassuringly technological. Workers wear elaborate positive-pressure suits, air is filtered, doors are sealed, pathogens are locked behind multiple laye...

The claim that nuclear weapons have made the world safer has become one of the most durable articles of faith in modern strategy. Deterrence, we are told, works. Great powers no longer fight each other directly because the cost of victory has become unthinkable. The long peace among major states since 1945 is offered as proof. Yet the record is not...

The drive to fully humiliate Trump is not primarily about policy disagreement or even electoral calculation. It is about status, symbolism, and the permanent rewriting of the narrative of American power in the Middle East. Every misstep, every escalation that fails to deliver a clean victory, every image of American ships or bases under threat beco...

There is no single WEF document announcing an "AI control grid". Their articles are not orders to governments, and some carry the usual disclaimer that the views belong to the author. Fair enough. But the Forum chooses which ideas to put before the political and corporate leaders who read its website and attend its gatherings. What it chooses to pr...

Just before the 250th anniversary of the American founding, a rural writer who calls himself Single Farmer published a two-part series on SurvivalBlog declaring that the American Republic had already fallen (link below). His assessment was not framed as triumphant or gleeful. He presented it as a solemn, multi-generational recognition of irreversib...

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." It is one of C. S. Lewis's most penetrating observations about morality, subsequently quoted by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave. At first sight it sounds exaggerated. Courage ordinarily appears alongside ho...

Australia's peak visual arts body has decided that certain ordinary human characteristics now count as privileges that must be named, managed and, in practice, treated with suspicion. Whiteness is a privilege. Being male or female, rather than something more fluid, is a privilege. Heterosexuality is a privilege. Living in a city can be a privilege....

The High Court has spent more than three decades dancing around the question. Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has survived political attempts at repeal, endless academic defence, and a series of lower-court skirmishes that never forced the ultimate constitutional reckoning. Now the facts have finally arrived in a form too plain to igno...

The debate over the rise of the West often suffers from a reductive tendency to isolate single variables, be it individualism, institutional framework, or raw cognitive capacity. Lipton Matthews' argument, while identifying a crucial psychological component, misses the forest for the trees by attempting to pit individualism against intelligence. In...

The viral story surrounding Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday has dominated discussion about the failings of Britain's elite universities. It has become a symbol of allegations of plagiarism, institutional deference to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and an allegedly embellished personal narrative that, critics argue, went insufficie...

The race to develop humanoid, autonomous combat platforms, the so-called "killer robots," is not merely a technological milestone; it is a profound escalation in the capacity for human destruction. As we stand on the precipice of this new era, we are witnessing a shift where the horrifying realities of war are being outsourced to machines, removing...

In 1792, a French astronomer named Pierre-François Méchain set out to measure the Earth. His job was to survey the meridian arc running from Dunkirk to Barcelona, so scientists could figure out the exact distance from the North Pole to the equator. One ten-millionth of that distance would become the new metre, a unit of length based on something no...

On January 19, 2025, his final full day in office, President Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. The warrant covered "any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon arising from or in any manner related ...

Curtis Yarvin's technocratic monarchy is the latest version of an old temptation: the belief that political failure is mainly a problem of insufficient centralisation and insufficient expertise. Democracy, in this telling, is a decorative fiction maintained by a permanent progressive oligarchy he calls the Cathedral. The remedy is to drop the prete...