The Substack essay by Celina101 ("The Cold War Politics of Feminism") delivers a nuanced, well-sourced examination of how U.S. intelligence agencies, primarily the CIA, helped curate and amplify the dominant strand of second-wave feminism from the 1960s onward. It's not a wild-eyed conspiracy theory claiming the CIA "invented" feminism or tur...

This is a pragmatic short-term scramble but carries serious strategic risks. The Deal Foreign Minister Penny Wong's recent trip to Beijing secured Chinese government facilitation for state-owned refineries to engage directly with Australian businesses on jet fuel sales. China had previously curbed refined fuel exports (including jet fuel) to protec...

 Australia is currently staring down a $42 billion white elephant in the Snowy Mountains. What began in 2017 as a $2 billion pumped-hydro "nation-building" project under Malcolm Turnbull has spiralled into one of the worst infrastructure disasters in modern Australian history. Independent experts Bruce Mountain and Ted Woodley estimate the tru...

For more than 250 years, the same playbook has been used to prop up toxic vaccines. At long last, we have a chance to end it. I have long believed in a "law of equilibrium" which posits that most things are cyclical and will eventually be brought back into balance. Mechanistically, this frequently results from existing phenomena being the result of...

In April 2026, Nova Scotia Education Minister Brendan Maguire delivered a statement that should send chills down the spine of every parent in Canada. During a legislative debate, Maguire erupted: "I'll be damned if I'm going to stand here and listen to someone say that the parents deserve rights over a child. No, they don't. They absolutely don't…"...

 Violence motivated by political differences has emerged as a defining, if alarming, feature of 21st -century American civil life. Neither side in our nation's increasingly dangerous ideological divide has a monopoly. But one side, the Democratic Party and its allies, refuses to acknowledge the increase in mayhem from the left. This is true ev...

There's a comforting myth in science: peer review is the rigorous, self-correcting gold standard that separates truth from nonsense. Critics who call it "broken" are often dismissed as cranks or conspiracy theorists. But the truth is harsher. Peer review isn't just imperfect, it is fundamentally flawed in ways that actively hinder scientific progre...

 On 28 April 2026, over 300 people took to the streets of Pretoria, marching toward the Union Buildings to demand stronger action against illegal immigration. The organisers — civic group March and March, along with allies like ActionSA and Operation Dudula — called for mass deportations, better border control, and enforcement of South Africa'...

A recent piece on American legal education paints an unflattering picture: law students behaving less like future officers of the court and more like ideological activists, and law schools drifting from training lawyers into incubating political worldviews. The specific example, focused on UCLA, may be polemical, but the underlying concern is not i...

Woke academia despises para-academia. Para-academia, after all, challenges the dogmas that many of them rely on to feel that they are morally superior to others and so allay their own insecurities. Such people are, further, heavily invested in Woke academia — their status and even livelihood depends on it — so any challenge to it is extremely dange...

 There is a certain kind of human energy that can look, from the outside, either admirable or intolerable depending on where you stand. One person's courage is another person's arrogance; one person's audacity is another's delusion. Two words capture this tension unusually well: chutzpah and hubris. They are often treated as cousins — both ges...

A new poll from the presitigous ifop polling firm shows that a large majority of French citizens believe in a core tenent of the Great Replacement. Specifically, 60 percent of French people told ifop they believe we are witnessing "a replacement of the French population by non-European populations, mainly from the African continent." The poll also ...

There is a certain genre of alarm that travels well online: decisive, dramatic, and just plausible enough to feel like a suppressed truth. The claim that the Persian Gulf's oil wells are "already beyond saving" fits that pattern neatly. It gestures at fragility in one of the world's most strategically important regions and suggests a failure of mai...

 I think Brian Simpson has a blog piece today: "All it Takes is One Hit," which seems to see aircraft carriers are more vulnerable than they are in fact to hypersonic missiles. I correct this. In the age of flashy military TikToks and breathless headlines, few weapons get more hype than hypersonic missiles. China's DF-17, Russia's Zircon, and ...

 There is something undeniably arresting about Albert Einstein's remark in Mein Weltbild: "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." It has the ring of distilled wisdom — clean, elegant, almost equation-like. Unsurprisingly, it has been eagerly adopt...

There is something irresistibly appealing about compressing life into a handful of rules. Five rules. Ten rules. Twelve rules. It gives the impression that the chaos of existence can be tamed, summarised, and — most importantly — followed. The recent Medium piece presenting five "rules" derived from Carl Jung taps directly into that instinct, disti...

For decades, modern naval doctrine has rested on an unspoken assumption: that major surface warships — especially those of the United States — are survivable in all but the most extreme scenarios. They may be threatened, tracked, even targeted, but not easily destroyed. That assumption is now under quiet but mounting pressure. Reports that Iran may...

Another day begins in Australia, but for the family and community of Kumanjayi Little Baby, it starts in unimaginable pain. The five-year-old girl, taken from her bed in the Ilyperenye (Old Timers) Aboriginal town camp in Alice Springs late on April 26, had her short life ended in what police allege was an abduction and murder by 47-year-old Jeffer...

In an age of bitter division, raw partisanship, and endless culture wars, something remarkable happened in Washington on April 28, 2026: a literal king stood before a joint session of Congress, delivered a heartfelt address on unity, history, and shared values, and both Republicans and Democrats rose to their feet in applause. Repeatedly. King Char...

Climate scepticism (often termed "climate realism" by proponents) does not deny that the Earth has warmed modestly since the late 19th century or that human CO₂ emissions contribute to the greenhouse effect, to some minor degree. Indeed, it questions the degree of human influence, the reliability of catastrophic projections, and whether the costs o...