Gabriël Moens, writing in The Spectator Australia, (link below), presents a sombre picture of the de-Christianisation of Australia and the wider Western world. Churches are closing, attendance has declined, traditional Christian moral teaching has lost much of its authority, and political and cultural institutions increasingly operate according to ...

Walter Russell Mead, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has just called mass immigration a "global powder keg." The modern era of extraordinary migration levels is beginning to ebb, he argues, and governments that fail to act thoughtfully now risk backlash, including the kind of street violence already visible in places like Thetford, England, whe...

The Reserve Bank of Australia's latest Statement on Monetary Policy paints a grim picture. Jobs growth, house prices, economic growth and productivity have all been downgraded. Inflation remains sticky and is not expected to return sustainably to the middle of the 2–3 per cent target band until early 2028. The cash rate stays at 4.35 per cent. Unem...

The Beats were not merely rebels against mid-century conformity. They were, in many cases, visibly unwell. Kerouac drank himself into an early grave. Ginsberg's mother was institutionalised and he himself spent time in psychiatric care. Burroughs shot his wife and spent decades chasing heroin. Corso, Huncke, Cowen, Kaufman; the list of breakdowns, ...

High-trust societies, like those of the West are historically rare. They rest on a simple, fragile equilibrium: large numbers of people repeatedly choosing not to defect in an endless series of prisoner's dilemmas. You keep your word. I keep mine. You do not take what is not yours. I do not summon the state to take what is yours. The resulting surp...

In January 2021, as the first COVID-19 vaccines rolled out and pregnant women were still largely excluded from the initial clinical trials, a private text exchange among three of the highest-ranking U.S. public-health officials captured a moment of theoretical caution. Vivek Murthy (then on the Biden transition team, later Surgeon General) asked An...

He who pays the piper calls the tune. It is one of those ancient truths that survives every attempt by modern governments to rebrand it as "industry support," "media diversity," or "public-interest journalism." The Albanese government has just given the oldest truth in the book a shiny new $67.6 million coat of paint and called it the Journalism As...

The growing appeal of democratic socialism in the United States and the West, should not simply be dismissed as another outbreak of youthful ideological fashion. Something deeper is happening. Michael Snyder draws attention to the increasing popularity of socialism among younger Americans and connects it to widespread dissatisfaction with the exist...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has announced she is freezing her eggs. At thirty-six, the congresswoman is putting her reproductive future on ice so she can keep her options open for higher office. The decision is being framed as empowerment, normalisation, and a brave conversation about the impossible balancing act faced by ambitious women. Fair e...

The Substack essay by COVID critic John Fleetwood, critiques the circular logic used to establish a "natural" origin for SARS-CoV-2, identifying a critical flaw in the scientific methodology employed by establishment researchers. This "evidentiary loop" is not an isolated error in one study; it is a systemic feature of a corrupted research apparatu...

There is something almost brutally clarifying about the latest controversy in Australian football. Freya Golding, a transgender woman who reportedly stands around 6 feet 2 inches and weighs more than 90 kilograms, has been cleared to continue playing in the Adelaide Footy League women's competition despite objections from three clubs that raised co...

Down in the octopus's garden, beneath the waves, evolution has been conducting experiments that would never have received ethics approval at a modern university. Take an animal, give it eight arms, remove the bones, cover the arms in suckers that can both touch and chemically sense the world, distribute much of the nervous system throughout those a...

There are moments in history when the awesome majesty of the American presidency is revealed in all its splendour. Washington crossing the Delaware. Lincoln at Gettysburg. Kennedy staring down the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan demanding that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall. And now we have Donald Trump disappearing inside...

Australia once sold itself to the world as a destination for serious study and eventual contribution. Over the past three decades that offer has been inverted. International education has become a high-volume migration pipeline dressed in the language of export earnings, and the country has absorbed the downstream costs while universities and migra...

Labor has conceded the obvious: the post-border-reopening surge in net overseas migration created a mess. Housing shortages worsened, rents rose sharply in the major cities, infrastructure lagged, and public services felt the strain. The government responded with tighter student-visa settings, higher application fees, integrity measures against non...

The pandemic elevated a particular kind of expert into a position of near-unquestioned authority. Credentialled voices insisted that the science was settled, that trade-offs did not exist or could be ignored, and that dissent was not merely mistaken but morally dangerous. Years later the record looks different. Anthony Fauci's repeated invocation o...

A forthcoming book by a former Pfizer toxicologist is set to reopen one of the most contested chapters of the pandemic. The Vaccine Mafia: Pfizer's Former Chief Toxicologist Proves How Toxic Substances Were Unlawfully Sold to Us as a Solution for Covid-19, by Dr. Helmut Sterz, is scheduled for release around late August 2026. Sterz spent decades in...

Labor is not building a stronger Australia. It is dismantling the social fabric that made the country workable, and many of its activists and politicians appear to enjoy the process. Legitimate government, as the classical liberal tradition understood it, rests on a simple bargain. Citizens surrender some natural freedoms in exchange for the protec...

Jon Bernthal has made a successful career out of portraying violent men. As Frank Castle in The Punisher, he has spent considerable screen time demonstrating what happens when aggression, physical power and determination are combined in one formidable package. One might therefore have expected him to appreciate an elementary proposition about risk:...

Perhaps World War III will not begin with a declaration of war. There may be no single morning on which humanity wakes to newspaper headlines announcing that the Third World War officially commenced at midnight. The more disturbing possibility is that historians looking backwards will eventually identify a period like the present and conclude that ...