Reporting from Bondi Beach After the Terror Attack
Claire Lehmann reports from Bondi Beach on the sombre atmosphere and public anger following the terror attack.
Claire Lehmann
· 2 min read
Videos
A collection of 105 posts
Why Housing Is Becoming Neo-Feudal: The Collapse of Home Ownership
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
Joel Kotkin, Zoe Booth
· 10 min read
How Antisemitism Returned: From Medieval Europe to the Free Palestine Protests
Why is antisemitism resurging? Why has support for Hamas taken hold on Western campuses? And how do Qatar, media narratives, and fading Holocaust memory feed today’s crisis?
Benny Morris, Zoe Booth
· 6 min read
The Truth About South Africa’s Farm Murders & White Exodus
Why are people fleeing the country? Is the threat of genocide being exaggerated—or ignored?
David Benatar
· 9 min read
How “Sensitivity Readers” Made Modern Fiction Boring
A critical look at how well-intentioned editorial “sensitivity” can narrow creative risk-taking and homogenise contemporary fiction.
Adam Szetela
· 14 min read
Why Britain Signed a Treaty with the Māori—but Not with Australia’s Aboriginal Peoples
Why did Britain negotiate a treaty with Māori chiefs in New Zealand but claim Australia as terra nullius—“land belonging to no one”?
Zoe Booth, Sean Welsh
· 7 min read
The Murder of Iryna Zarutska | Media Bias, Ideology & Selective Outrage
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Zoe Booth, Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
Melbourne’s Crime Wave Explained: What Went Wrong in Australia’s ‘Most Liveable City’?
Once celebrated as the world’s most liveable city, Melbourne is now confronting a surge in violent crime, youth gang activity, and public disorder. What happened — and why?
Zoe Booth, Andrew Bushnell
· 12 min read
The Melbourne Crimewave
Andrew Bushnell, Iona Italia
· 1 min read
We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The Westman school massacre, explained.
Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman, Zoe Booth
· 6 min read
The War on Science
Lawrence M. Krauss, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Enlightenment's Gravediggers
Maarten Boudry, Quillette
· 1 min read
Making Fiction Boring
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.
Adam Szetela
· 14 min read
The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System
Healthcare for menopause and perimenopause is the single most patient-betraying area of medicine—but it has plenty of company.
Amy Alkon
· 14 min read
The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk
Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil.
David Christopher Kaufman
· 6 min read