The headline is doing what headlines are for. Labor, we are told, is about to unveil an immigration "crackdown," aimed at international students, visitor visas, and the onshore applications that turn a temporary stay into a long argument with the department. The Australian puts the motive in the open: the package is being finished amid pressure fro...

 Yes. Not always, not overnight, and not in the cartoon sense that a single election turns a functioning country into a crater. But history is not subtle on the main point. Leaders can impoverish a rich nation, hollow out its institutions, teach its people to live by slogans instead of competence, and leave a wreck that later generations spend...

There is something almost anachronistic about James Lawley's project. Through his Gent Z videos and his Gentlemen's Collective, Lawley is attempting to resurrect an idea that much of modern culture has either forgotten or reduced to parody: the gentleman. Not simply the man who owns an expensive suit, knows which fork to use at dinner and can disti...

In a large prospective study of middle-aged and older Chinese adults living in Singapore, regular consumption of milk and other dairy foods emerged as modestly but consistently linked to lower risks of two major chronic conditions: type 2 diabetes and hypertension. The findings come from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a long-running cohort tha...

If you had told a liberal activist in 1968 that in the year 2026 there would be crowds of women in pink standing outside a courthouse in support of a mother who confessed to killing her three children, that activist would have assumed you were describing some grotesque Right-wing satire, the kind of thing that gets printed in a fringe pamphlet to d...

 Who invented DIOS? I am pleased to inform you that it was Dan Quayle: "From the perspective of many Japanese, the ethnic diversity of our culture is a weakness compared to their homogeneous society. I begged to differ with my host. I explained that our diversity is our strength and I explained that the immigrants who come to our shores have m...

 They were told that anger is a virtue, and a large slice of the American professional class believed it. Steve McCann's question in American Thinker (link below), is not subtle, and it does not need to be. Why are so many liberal white women so publicly furious when, by the metrics the last half-century used to measure female progress, they h...

Janet Levy's essay in American Thinker names the new creed anti-speciesism: the conviction that preferring humans to other animals is a prejudice of the same family as racism or sexism, and that policy should be rewritten until the preference disappears. Richard Ryder coined the insult. Peter Singer made it fashionable. The move is simple and, once...

There are some aircraft whose appearance in the sky attracts rather more attention than a Qantas flight arriving five minutes early. Five American E-6B Mercury aircraft, popularly known as "doomsday planes," were reportedly airborne over the United States at the same time this week, just as CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unusual and initially ...

The yearning is older than the petition. What is new is the attempt to turn it into a fiscal and legal corridor. When Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, told Jamaica's parliament this month that repatriation is "a right of all persons of African descent," he was not inventing a slogan. He was putting a state seal on a demand that Rastafari com...

 Donald Trump killed the Clancy children! There, I have solved the case. Massachusetts can dismiss the jury, send the lawyers home and save the taxpayers a fortune. There is no need to concern ourselves with exercise bands, psychiatric evidence, medication histories, telephone records, internet searches, expert witnesses or such patriarchal re...

Empathy built the West. Unbounded, it is now unmaking it. Gad Saad calls the disease suicidal empathy: a noble capacity that hyperfires toward the wrong targets, in the wrong measure, at the wrong time, until a civilisation begins to prefer the feelings of the outsider, the offender, or the abstract victim over the survival of the people who actual...

The science-fiction nightmare usually arrives with thunder. Machines seize control, armies of robots march through ruined cities, and human beings wake to discover that their bodies have become components in a technological system they no longer control. Reality is rarely so theatrical. If something resembling The Matrix ever comes into existence, ...

 There is a wonderfully counterintuitive fact about the outer reaches of our solar system, something worth thinking about on a Saturday. The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977 and built with technology that now belongs in museums, eventually reached a region where scientists measured temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Kelvin. V...

For more than 30 years, section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 has survived a political argument that never really went away. Coalition governments talked about reforming it, civil libertarians attacked it, racial-discrimination advocates defended it, and successive parliaments ultimately left it standing. Now Pauline Hanson may achieve ...

Commercial aviation has achieved something remarkable. Millions of people routinely climb into machines weighing hundreds of tonnes, accelerate to around 250 kilometres per hour along a strip of concrete and disappear into the sky with scarcely a thought about whether they will arrive. The reason we can treat this extraordinary activity as ordinary...

In January 2021, a little more than a month after the first COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use authorisation, the directors of America's leading public-health agencies exchanged messages about pregnant women. The texts, recovered years later from Anthony Fauci's government-issued phone and released by Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, do no...

The State Department is preparing what officials describe as the largest mass visa revocation in American history: the cancellation of up to 200,000 B-1 and B-2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders entered as short-term visitors and then filed for asylum. The move is coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security. It does not, by ...

A recent survey of 1,404 people across 18 Western countries reports that those who call themselves left-handed place themselves, on average, about half a point further left on a ten-point political scale than right-handers. The difference is statistically detectable and, in the sample, larger than the gap between men and women. Headlines followed: ...

One of the great mistakes of modern secularism was the assumption that if people ceased believing in God they would simply become rational individuals, calmly constructing their lives according to evidence and enlightened self-interest. Human beings do not seem to work that way. We are meaning-seeking creatures, and when one source of transcendent ...