The Australian government's much-hyped ban on social media for under-16s is the latest example of performative authoritarianism masquerading as child protection. Announced with great fanfare as a bold move to shield young people from addiction, bullying, and mental health harms, the policy is already proving to be what many sceptics predicted: larg...
In an age of rising living costs, housing stress, economic uncertainty, and growing social fragmentation, Australians are searching for ways to build more resilient lives. Governments offer policy packages, economists produce forecasts, and financial advisers recommend new investment strategies. Yet some of the most valuable lessons may come from a...
Modern society rests upon a curious assumption: that government bureaucrats are generally trustworthy, competent, and motivated by the public interest. Citizens are routinely told to trust health officials, trust regulators, trust departmental experts, trust commissions, trust advisory panels, trust intelligence agencies, trust central banks, and t...
The recent flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz indicates that the underlying crisis is far from resolved. Analyst Weichert's assessment (link below), captures the immediate dynamics well: tanker traffic disruptions, Iranian posturing, proxy involvement, and the perennial tension between energy security and geopolitical rivalry. Yet this is not a one-o...
The Substack essay by Boriqua Gato brilliantly diagnoses the sickness in Western higher education: it has devolved into a cargo cult. Like Pacific islanders after World War II who built mock airfields and performed drills hoping to summon supply planes, today's universities erect elaborate rituals: diversity statements, equity offices, trigger warn...
For many workers, the dream seemed irresistible. No commuting. No crowded trains. No office politics. No supervisor peering over your shoulder. Work from home appeared to offer the best of all worlds: greater flexibility, more family time, and a healthier work-life balance. It is little wonder that millions embraced remote work during and after the...
The resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sends a clear signal across the Anglosphere. Labour governments that embrace open borders, net-zero zealotry, speech restrictions, and ever-expanding state control eventually collide with reality, and the electorate. Anthony Albanese, Australia's own Labour Prime Minister, is Starmer's ideological a...
Please remember all of my writings are a Gedankenexperiment, not a form of advice, but an extended thought experiment. This will surely be a controversial article. But consider that sometimes medicine is useful even if it initially tastes bad. White people are being oppressed around the world and are a minority group who are under constant assault....
Even Caitlyn Jenner has reportedly said she would accept being misgendered if it meant preventing a nuclear apocalypse. That single concession exposes a fatal fracture in the contemporary moral architecture of the woke Left. In this framework, certain identity-based offenses, above all, "misgendering," function as near-infinite sins. They are not o...
As usual the US gives us a warning example. Pamela Geller's recent piece highlights a troubling pattern: cities from New York to Seattle to Washington, D.C., are increasingly elevating openly socialist leaders. This is not an aberration or mere pendulum swing. It represents the culmination of a deliberate, decades-long strategy, the "long march thr...
We have previously discussed academic journals cancelling publications that challenge the orthodox views of mainstream scholars. The latest such example can be found in the Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, which pulled the 2025 article of Arna Mitchell who questioned claims that psychology as a field is a tool of "white...
The US Supreme Court's recent ruling on post-election-day ballot counting (allowing or clarifying the handling of late-arriving mail-in ballots in certain contexts) has sparked predictable reactions. Justice Alito's pointed comments highlight a real and ongoing vulnerability: loose or inconsistently enforced deadlines around mail-in and absentee ba...
One of the enduring myths of modern society is that intelligence naturally leads to wealth, let alone happiness. We assume that the brightest students, the university gold medallists, the brilliant scientists, and the accomplished professionals will inevitably become financially successful. Reality tells a different story. Many highly intelligent p...
The West is waning. That much is clear to anyone paying attention. Birth rates below replacement, mass migration altering the demographic character of historic nations, cultural self-loathing in elite institutions, eroding social trust, and the hollowing out of Enlightenment values that built unparalleled prosperity and freedom. The American Thinke...
France is not merely experiencing political turbulence; it is in the midst of an existential contest for its very survival as a recognisable nation. The far-Left coalition La France Insoumise (LFI), led by figures like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, openly celebrates the demographic decline of the indigenous French people while pushing policies that accelerat...
Paul Hogan, the larrikin legend behind Crocodile Dundee, has weighed in on Australia's multiculturalism debate from his primary home in Los Angeles, calling Pauline Hanson a "pelican," "outrageous," and "racist," accusing her of living in the past, and declaring his desire to die in a "multicultural Australia." Prime Minister Anthony Albanese quick...
With a 5-4 decision that should alarm every Westerner concerned with borders, citizenship, and the long-term survival of the American republic, the U.S. Supreme Court has once again entrenched a maximalist interpretation of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, in powerful dissents, cut th...
In the outer suburbs of Melbourne where the gum trees stand sentinel over decades of family life, one notices patterns that the glossy pages of The New York Times only hint at. A recent article in that outlet, "Older Adults Are No Longer Staying in 'Empty Shell' Marriages," captures a real phenomenon: the sharp rise in "gray divorce": splits ...
There was a time when the weather was one of the few things capable of uniting humanity. Rain fell on conservatives and progressives alike. Heatwaves ignored political affiliations. Storms paid no attention to race, religion, or gender. Mother Nature, despite the name, was gloriously impartial. Apparently, that is no longer good enough. Recent comm...
A Dutch professor has declared that time is racist. In a paper that sounds like a parody but is depressingly real, the academic argues that Western concepts of linear time, punctuality, schedules and deadlines embody "whiteness" and colonial oppression. "White time" supposedly marginalises non-Western, more "relational" or cyclical understandings o...
