The Oldest Tradition in Art
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
The Tobacco Wars
How Australia's war on tobacco backfired.
Andrew Bushnell
· 18 min read
Omer Bartov: What Went Wrong?
A distinguished historian of the Holocaust views Israel through the wrong prism.
Benny Morris
· 25 min read
The Patriarchal Mind Virus
By dismissing the importance of biological sex, Robin Dembroff earned predictable acclaim from fellow scholars. But as a work of philosophy, ‘Real Men on Top’ is unconvincing and deeply flawed.
Alex Byrne
· 21 min read
The Modern Mythology of AI
LLMs are incredibly useful, even astonishing. But they aren’t “thinking” about anything.
Peter L. Levin
· 10 min read
I Chaired Canada's Human Rights Tribunal. Here's What I Saw.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring.
David Thomas
· 13 min read
A Crisis in the Humanities
The norms governing scholarship now often serve to protect a rigid orthodoxy on certain politically charged issues—with ideological tests substituted for proper academic standards.
Paul Boghossian
· 23 min read
The Pacific's True Rogue State
Beijing just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone and called it routine. It was not.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
Gary Stevenson Is Wrong About Wealth Inequality
Gary Stevenson says Britain's wealth inequality is spiralling out of control. The data says otherwise—and Channel 4 never thought to check.
Kristian Niemietz
· 8 min read
The Rise and Fall of Graham Platner
Is this the far left's #MeToo moment?
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Reshaping the Middle East
Reconsidering Israel’s wars in 1956, 1982, and 2026.
Shany Mor
· 21 min read
Strong Opinions
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
Stephen Akey
· 10 min read
Generation Trapped: Why Young Australians Have Given Up Hope
Parnell Palme McGuinness on the six distinct "tribes" of young Australians she uncovered—and why personal agency, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness.
Claire Lehmann
· 25 min read