A collection of 107 posts
Philosopher and programmer Sean Welsh talks with Zoe Booth about AI, colonial history, and why scepticism is the best guide through both technology and politics.
The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.
As antisemitism surges online and in the streets, online hate researcher Dr Andre Oboler joins Zoe to examine how conspiracy thinking, political ideology, and institutional complacency are fuelling hate—and what can be done to stop it.
As more young men search for meaning in a fragmented world, political sociologist Joshua Roose joins Zoe to explore how masculinity, disaffection, and the lure of belonging draw some toward Islamism, others to the far right.
Why the New Zealand Māori got a treaty from the British in 1840 but, in 1788, the Australian Aborigines did not.
The colonisation of Australia was neither a peaceful settlement nor a bloody conquest. It was a Malthusian swamping: the inevitable and tragic result of contact between hunter gatherers and agriculturalists.
Why nuclear must be part of Australia’s energy future.
Who really benefits from open-border policies?
Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann speaks with Bangladeshi-born Australian psychiatrist and journalist Tanveer Ahmed about the rise of Jew-hatred in their country.
The NSW nurses have not just threatened individual patients—they have desecrated what it means to be Australian.
On Australia Day, we should recognise the blackfellas, the whitefellas, and the fellas of all shades in between.
Australia is one of the only places where humans maintained a hunter-gatherer lifestyle into the modern era. This makes it an invaluable window into humanity’s deep past—a window that is closing.
If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.
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.’
Examining Australia’s leadership vacuum in the wake of the Melbourne synagogue firebombing.