The claim that nuclear weapons have made the world safer has become one of the most durable articles of faith in modern strategy. Deterrence, we are told, works. Great powers no longer fight each other directly because the cost of victory has become unthinkable. The long peace among major states since 1945 is offered as proof. Yet the record is not...

The drive to fully humiliate Trump is not primarily about policy disagreement or even electoral calculation. It is about status, symbolism, and the permanent rewriting of the narrative of American power in the Middle East. Every misstep, every escalation that fails to deliver a clean victory, every image of American ships or bases under threat beco...

There is no single WEF document announcing an "AI control grid". Their articles are not orders to governments, and some carry the usual disclaimer that the views belong to the author. Fair enough. But the Forum chooses which ideas to put before the political and corporate leaders who read its website and attend its gatherings. What it chooses to pr...

Just before the 250th anniversary of the American founding, a rural writer who calls himself Single Farmer published a two-part series on SurvivalBlog declaring that the American Republic had already fallen (link below). His assessment was not framed as triumphant or gleeful. He presented it as a solemn, multi-generational recognition of irreversib...

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." It is one of C. S. Lewis's most penetrating observations about morality, subsequently quoted by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave. At first sight it sounds exaggerated. Courage ordinarily appears alongside ho...

Australia's peak visual arts body has decided that certain ordinary human characteristics now count as privileges that must be named, managed and, in practice, treated with suspicion. Whiteness is a privilege. Being male or female, rather than something more fluid, is a privilege. Heterosexuality is a privilege. Living in a city can be a privilege....

The High Court has spent more than three decades dancing around the question. Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has survived political attempts at repeal, endless academic defence, and a series of lower-court skirmishes that never forced the ultimate constitutional reckoning. Now the facts have finally arrived in a form too plain to igno...

The debate over the rise of the West often suffers from a reductive tendency to isolate single variables, be it individualism, institutional framework, or raw cognitive capacity. Lipton Matthews' argument, while identifying a crucial psychological component, misses the forest for the trees by attempting to pit individualism against intelligence. In...

The viral story surrounding Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday has dominated discussion about the failings of Britain's elite universities. It has become a symbol of allegations of plagiarism, institutional deference to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and an allegedly embellished personal narrative that, critics argue, went insufficie...

The race to develop humanoid, autonomous combat platforms, the so-called "killer robots," is not merely a technological milestone; it is a profound escalation in the capacity for human destruction. As we stand on the precipice of this new era, we are witnessing a shift where the horrifying realities of war are being outsourced to machines, removing...

In 1792, a French astronomer named Pierre-François Méchain set out to measure the Earth. His job was to survey the meridian arc running from Dunkirk to Barcelona, so scientists could figure out the exact distance from the North Pole to the equator. One ten-millionth of that distance would become the new metre, a unit of length based on something no...

On January 19, 2025, his final full day in office, President Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. The warrant covered "any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon arising from or in any manner related ...

Curtis Yarvin's technocratic monarchy is the latest version of an old temptation: the belief that political failure is mainly a problem of insufficient centralisation and insufficient expertise. Democracy, in this telling, is a decorative fiction maintained by a permanent progressive oligarchy he calls the Cathedral. The remedy is to drop the prete...

One in five Americans now says they view communism favourably. Among those aged 18 to 29 the figure is 38 percent, higher than unfavourable views in that cohort, and only seven points behind capitalism. Socialism, softer in name but overlapping in practice, outpolls capitalism among the young. These numbers come from a 2026 Cato Institute survey. T...

For years Australians have been told that Net Zero is an unavoidable national mission. It has been presented not as a policy choice but as a moral obligation, with the public expected to absorb rising electricity prices, increasing taxes, costly subsidies and major changes to the economy in pursuit of emissions targets set decades into the future. ...

Europe is watching the next chapter of a story it has already been living for a decade. In the first days of August 2026, tens of thousands of young men surged toward the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Most were turned back. A few thousand remained. The episode was treated, as these episodes usually are, as a temporary border management pro...

One of the greatest survival foods ever developed did not emerge from a government laboratory or a multinational food company. It was created centuries ago by the Indigenous peoples of North America, who understood that surviving long winters and vast journeys required food that was compact, durable and extraordinarily energy-dense. The result was ...

In 2010, long before the world had ever heard of SARS-CoV-2, the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a little-known initiative with a strikingly ambitious goal. Called PROPHECY, the program aimed to peer into the future of viral evolution, to predict mutations, genetic shifts, and the emergence of new pandemic...

"Have you read Sarah Vine's piece in the Daily Mail this week?" "The one that begins by acknowledging that even writing about the subject feels taboo? Yes. Her starting point is two horrific deaths within weeks of each other: Jamey Carney in Killarney and Elisabeth-Jane Ross in Athens, both allegedly killed by men they had encountered through migra...

Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop began life as a grand political vision. Announced just before the 2018 election by then-Premier Daniel Andrews, the 90-kilometre orbital railway was sold as transformative infrastructure that would reshape Melbourne for generations. The initial claim was that the three stages would cost around $50 billion. That figure ...