President of Argentina, Javier Milei, is having a ball at Davos. ‘The mental virus of Woke ideology is an epidemic which is ...

It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals ...

As with so much of the rest of the Western world, Australians are demanded to ‘reflect, respect, and celebrate’ on their national holiday. Even if couched in the soft language of human ...

Attempting to sell one of my ‘world’s best ferry designs’ in the 1990s to a local but prominent ferry company, the unhappy manager, known as GF, eyed me suspiciously. ‘You were here before trying ...

I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the post box, when I see a couple approaching from a distance. I am already anticipating how I ...

The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand ...

A paradox of art history: to understand the artists of the past, it helps to study how, and where, they conceived of the ...

When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response ...

I can’t say I know the new President of the United States very well, but during the five years I lived in New York between ...

Whenever a new study of the Nazi regime appears, it is taken as a given that after Adolf Hitler seized power and became ...

It is rare to read a book about Cicero that likens its hero to a demagogue. Rome’s prosecutor of conspiracy and corruption in ...

Maeve Brennan (1917-93) was a supremely gifted Irish/American writer, whose work is periodically rediscovered, only to vanish ...