Every time tensions flare in the Strait of Hormuz, politicians, financial markets and military planners collectively hold their breath. A narrow stretch of water only a few dozen kilometres wide has become one of the world's greatest strategic choke points. Should shipping be disrupted, oil prices surge, inflation rises, economies tremble and gover...

Just when many of us had concluded that philosophy had finally breathed its last, the old girl has unexpectedly kicked her legs, dragged herself out of the muddy creek and staggered back into view. It is an image that resonates with me because I grew up on a farm where cattle occasionally slipped into deep muddy sections of a river. Once a heavy co...

The recent sentencing of 29-year-old Iranian folk singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight members of her production crew to 74 lashes each, plus a two-year travel ban and a two-year ban on artistic activities, has drawn international attention. The Qom criminal court handed down the punishment after Ahmadi livestreamed a performance of a patriotic song wi...

Human beings have always dreamed of eliminating disease and reducing suffering. It is therefore understandable that the prospect of correcting devastating inherited disorders through genetic editing appears attractive. If technology could spare a child from Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis or Tay-Sachs disease, many parents would naturally wel...

Laying in the rough-and-tumble world of post-2020 election litigation, few stories have been as dramatic as the clash between Dominion Voting Systems and Mike Lindell, the outspoken MyPillow CEO better known as the Pillow Guy. For years, Dominion pursued a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Lindell, accusing him of spreading false claims that ...

 What should have been a proud national moment became a sobering reminder of just how far Canberra has drifted from the people it claims to represent. On Tuesday I attended the opening of the newly renovated and expanded Australian War Memorial. The project cost Australian taxpayers around half a billion dollars. Normally when government spend...

Liberty is not a slogan. It is not the freedom to do whatever one feels like in the moment. It is the hard-won inheritance of ordered freedom: the right to speak, to think, to associate, to build, to keep the fruits of one's labour, and to live under laws that are clear, stable, and applied equally. It is the foundation upon which the West built un...

Over the last decade, Australia, like many western countries, has fallen many points on the World Democracy Index. We are now 0.85 points from being a flawed democracy. Nine years of Liberals from 2013 started the slide and Labor continued from 2022 onwards. Since 2001 this includes approximately 100+ new counterterrorism laws , many of which remov...

Europe may be enduring the first blast of what commentators have dubbed the "Godzilla El Niño," but Australian farmers would be making a serious mistake if they dismissed it as someone else's problem. While Europeans battle extreme summer heat, the real test for Australia is still months away. If current forecasts prove correct, the coming spring a...

Australians are again being told that power prices are falling. Regulators point to lower default market offers, politicians point to reductions in benchmark prices, and energy experts assure us that relief is finally on the way. Yet millions of households continue to experience a very different reality when the bill arrives. The latest controversy...

For generations, leaving the family home marked the transition into adulthood. Young Australians found work, rented a modest flat or unit, saved a deposit, and eventually purchased a home of their own. It was not always easy, but it was possible. Today that pathway is becoming increasingly difficult, with growing numbers of young adults remaining i...

Wayne Root's recent column cuts to the heart of lingering public distrust: why is Dr. Anthony Fauci not facing serious accountability for his central role in America's, and the world's, catastrophic COVID-19 response? After years of shifting guidance, suppressed debate, and institutional stonewalling, the evidence warrants a thorough public reckoni...

The escalation ladder in Ukraine just got several rungs shorter. Reports confirm Western long-range missiles, supplied by the US, UK, and allies, are now striking deep inside Russia, targeting military infrastructure far from the front lines. This marks a dangerous shift from defensive aid to direct participation in offensive operations on Russian ...

A sobering new Norwegian study lays bare the human cost of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, particularly among young people. Published in Open Heart, the research by Bendik Skinningsrud Hagen and colleagues reveals that 74% of new myocarditis cases were linked to vaccination, while only 4.2% were associated with actual COVID-19 infection. This is...

Spain stands at a crossroads, and the Left-wing government of Pedro Sánchez is steering it straight toward the abyss. While much of Europe tightens borders in response to migration pressures, Spain's Socialists (PSOE) and their allies push ahead with extraordinary regularisations, offering legal status to hundreds of thousands, potentially over a m...

The West is facing a slow-motion civilizational crisis, and mass immigration from the Global South is accelerating it. While native birth rates in Europe, North America, and Australia have collapsed well below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman, elites insist the solution is to import millions more from culturally distant, often lower-...

Limitarianism, the fashionable idea in moral philosophy that no one should be allowed to accumulate "too much" wealth, is gaining traction among academics and Left-wing commentators. Proponents argue that extreme riches are inherently bad for society, that billionaires, and now trillionaires, represent a moral crisis, and that governments should im...

Few organisations enjoy a reputation for humanitarian commitment quite like Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). For decades, the organisation has been regarded as one of the world's leading providers of medical assistance in conflict zones, disaster areas, and refugee camps. Its staff have often worked under dange...

One Nation has unleashed a devastating political offensive against Anthony Albanese and the Labor government, and the results have been nothing short of stunning. The "Fire the Liar" campaign, built around a simple, hard-hitting slogan and funded by an extraordinary grassroots surge, has raised over $4 million in days from tens of thousands of ordi...

H.L. Mencken captured the dark art of governance with brutal precision: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." In an era of 24/7 media, algorithmic amplification, and technocratic elites, this strategy has reached ind...