Australia Day: A Contentious Celebration

The founding of Australia is still worthy of commemoration.

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24 Jan 2024 · 11 min read

Protesters march from Parliament House to Flinders Street Station, January 26, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

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Jeff Bezos is inspired by a vision that does not involve living on Mars—or on any planet besides Earth—but inhabiting artificial worlds in free space.

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Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.

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The Ceasefire Deal

As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.

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The Power of Nuclear

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Fighting Fire with Fire

We know how to prevent catastrophic bushfires. For more than half a century, Western Australia has been reducing forest fuel loads through a systematic program of ‘prescribed burns.’