When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.
Sex, money, murder, and the decline of Mike White’s wildly popular HBO series ‘The White Lotus.’
Danny Rensch never became the world’s greatest chess player. But his improbable rise from traumatised cult child to dot-com wunderkind represents an even more impressive achievement.
Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil.
Two recent Australian Federal Court judgments illustrate the good things that the rule of law may confer on a society, even when it conflicts with ideals like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Pamela Paresky speaks with Israeli intellectual and former Knesset member Einat Wilf about the contradictions of Palestinian statehood, the role of UNRWA, and the enduring rejection of Jewish sovereignty.
Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.
...but it will need to be reimagined in the post-Trump era.
In its quest to exploit Myanmar for diverse ends, the Chinese Communist Party keeps underestimating the state’s volatility.
Jordan Castro’s new novel ‘Muscle Man’ offers a wry and meme-literate vision of blokey intellectualism.
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, ‘The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.’
New political and technological developments have eased Australia’s path to becoming a major partner for America’s commercial space industry. We should seize the chance.
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
The modern CIA is everything its enemies and friends say it is—by turns heroic, villainous, duplicitous, servile, and frequently ineffective.