Middlebrow movies weren’t just two-hour escape pods, they functioned as a civic glue, a source of shared language, cross-generational references, and indeed, contemporary American myth.
The race is on to build a base for permanent human habitation on the Moon.
Matt Shumer’s viral essay about AI is part of a long history of fear produced by technological change.
Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece ‘Dr Strangelove’ remains a potent allegory for our times.
It appears that people now find comfort in the idea that the life of even the greatest of writers is no more satisfying than their own.
Radley Metzger’s 1975 hardcore adaptation of a celebrated literary hoax is a vast improvement on the cynical source material.
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
While other jurisdictions adopt balanced, evidence-based protocols for treating gender dysphoria, the CPS has doubled down on an obsolete policy instructing doctors to reflexively ‘affirm’ trans-identified youth.
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s latest novel is a heavy-handed parable designed to show that Islamist radicalisation in Australia is merely a myth invented by a racist establishment. In the wake of the Bondi shooting, this seems less believable than ever.
It’s hard to believe in God when even very bright, thoughtful people can’t come up with good reasons why you should.
The century-old moral panics and persecutions by Anthony Comstock and the Society for the Suppression of Vice are echoed today by cancellation campaigns from the moralistic Left and Right.
What the Adelaide Writers’ Week fiasco reveals about the moral economy of cultural elites.
Nature is sexist. Technology is the equaliser.