The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a profound contempt for human life, dignity, and freedom among a global class of elites who used a public health crisis to consolidate power, suppress dissent, and advance a technocratic agenda. This contempt, far from dissipating, has found a permanent institutional home in the World Health Organization (WHO), which n...
The ongoing U.S.-led blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the broader military confrontation with Iran are creating a slow-motion catastrophe beneath the desert sands and seabed of the Persian Gulf. What began as a naval and economic pressure campaign is now threatening permanent, irreversible damage to some of the world's most productive oil...
There is something almost mischievous in the title of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Lightness, we are told, is the problem. Not the burdens that press down upon us, not the obligations, the losses, the irreversible decisions — but their absence. The suggestion is paradoxical: that a life without weight, without necessity, without consequ...
Australia has tightened student visa rules for India and other high-risk South Asian countries, moving them to the highest evidence level (EL3), imposing stricter financial checks, genuine temporary entrant scrutiny, and higher refusal rates (around 40% for Indian applicants in early 2026). Predictably, the usual voices are screaming "racism." This...
The World Health Organization's recent two‑day pandemic simulation, which brought together 26 countries, 600 health emergency experts, and more than 25 international partners, marks a significant escalation in the centralisation of global health governance. While officials frame this exercise as a necessary preparation for future outbreaks, a close...
Mike Tyson's most famous quote is deceptively simple: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." Spoken before one of his fights, the line has become a cultural meme. But beneath the bravado lies something far deeper — a raw, unflinching insight into the human condition that echoes the very heart of Socratic wisdom. The Socrati...
The rollout of AI-powered road safety cameras across Australia has triggered a predictable explosion in fines: 184,000 infringements in Western Australia since October 2025, over 130,000 in New South Wales in a single year, and 114,000 in Queensland. Governments are raking in tens of millions in revenue while drivers face hefty penalties — of...
It is student office election time at another university I had to visit, and I decided to actually look at the notices of candidates; obviously not to vote, being the one and only Professor X, but to see the ethno-racial profile. Majority Indian, with signs in Hindi and Punjabi. Some Chinese … signs in Mandarin. I did not see any white candidates, ...
The global fertiliser squeeze now unfolding is one of those slow-moving crises that rarely captures sustained public attention — until it suddenly does, and by then the consequences are already locked in. It lacks the immediacy of a financial crash or a military escalation, yet in practical terms it may prove more consequential. Crops are pla...
There is a particular kind of story that cuts clean through the noise of modern life — through the endless churn of outrage, decline narratives, and cultural pessimism — and reminds us, quietly but forcefully, that not everything is broken. The recent account of middle school students in Mississippi taking control of a moving school bus after...
The fragile ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran — hastily brokered in early April 2026 after weeks of devastating strikes — is already showing deep cracks. As of early May, indirect talks mediated by Pakistan have produced proposals, but little progress. President Trump has publicly rejected key elements of Iran's latest 14-...
In 2015, the Northern Territory government handed over the Port of Darwin — Australia's northernmost strategic gateway — to a Chinese-owned company, Landbridge Group, on a 99-year lease for around A$506 million. Fast-forward to 2026: the Australian federal government, under both major parties' momentum, is moving to reclaim control citing national ...
Joe Biden and his allies famously declared that America's elections — especially 2020 — were the "most secure in history." Super honest. Bulletproof. Nothing to see here. Then reality keeps delivering garbage bags full of forged voter registrations. The Latest Exhibit: Plainfield, New Jersey In 2021, Henrilynn Ibezim, a Democratic mayoral candidate...
George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) is one of the most devastating literary takedowns of totalitarianism ever written. A sharp, unflinching allegory of the Russian Revolution and Stalinist Soviet Union, it shows how noble slogans of equality ("All animals are equal") inevitably mutate into brutal hierarchy ("All animals are equal, but some animals a...
In the early hours of 1 May 2026, Alice Springs descended into chaos outside the local hospital. A crowd of hundreds – mostly Aboriginal locals – rioted, torching police cars, hurling objects, injuring emergency workers, and demanding "payback." The target of their fury was 47-year-old Jefferson Lewis, recently arrested and beaten unconscious by me...
President Donald Trump has done it again — he's declared the war with Iran over, and the United States the winner. In a letter to Congress on May 1, 2026, he formally notified lawmakers that "the hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated." No direct fire with Iran since the April 7 ceasefire, he argued, so the 60-day War Powers c...
If advanced AI is just a benign tool for productivity, creativity, and human flourishing — as the hype machine relentlessly claims — then why are so many of its leading creators quietly building (or buying) fortified bunkers? A recent video featuring tech ethicist Tristan Harris dives into this contradiction. Meanwhile, James Wesley Rawles, founder...
The arrival of Anthropic's Claude Mythos has produced the now-familiar mixture of technological wonder, regulatory panic and corporate self-advertisement. The claim is stark: here is an AI system so capable at cybersecurity that it cannot safely be released to the public. It can inspect code, find weaknesses, reason through exploitation chains, and...
Australia should seriously consider country-of-origin caps or targets as part of managing its migration program. A recent Macrobusiness piece highlights the dominance of a handful of source countries — especially India and China — in recent net overseas migration, echoing debates in Canada where Indian inflows have been extraordinarily concentrated...
A provocative new Substack piece by Celina101 flips the conservative script on immigration and integration. Titled "The Chicken-and-Egg Fallacy", it argues that parallel societies — those dense, self-segregating enclaves with their own languages, marriage patterns, welfare usage, and values — are not the cause of failed multiculturalism. They are t...
