A collection of 52 posts
Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives.
There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.
In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an “f.” “This is an ‘f’,” he said. Then he displayed an “f” written
Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population.
While Reuters reports that the French had ample warning the project was in trouble, the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the submarine contract nevertheless took them by surprise.
Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world.
If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away.
Australia has every advantage under the sun: plentiful economic resources, a highly skilled workforce, and traditionally competent governments.
Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.
Overly harsh enforcement of the law can paradoxically act to undermine it.
One general conclusion from reading Leys is that although totalitarian movements are immensely dangerous, that doesn’t mean we should give the theories behind them much intellectual weight.
Cook is best understood as a quintessential figure of the European Enlightenment, with all the consequences flowing from that, positive and negative.