Is the Absurd the key to the meaning of life? […]

Today, August 18, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Australia's withdrawal from Vietnam after a decade of mounting protests and bitter division. That cocktail of hope and fear, allegiance and alienation, has never been resolved, and the tension remains, alive and bitter as ever -- a fundamental factor in the shaping of contemporary politics and culture

Philosophically, Sir Alfred Ayer was in a very awkward position: it was 1988, he was seventy-seven, and he was dead. Indeed, he’d 'passed to the other side', as he later put it. It was awkward because, as a very prominent and militant atheist, he shouldn’t be there, shouldn’t be anywhere. Indeed, he shouldn’t be at all

How would the history of literature have evolved if consumption had not claimed Katherine Mansfield a century ago at the age of thirty-four? The New Zealand-born writer's influence on writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf is well known, as was the professional and personal challenge she presented to them as she explored her vision of literary Modernism

In this age of destructive iconoclasm, when our civilisation's traditions are demeaned at the altar of pseudo-historical and crypto-mythological accounts of the past, it is vital to explore and re-assert the brilliant and unsurpassed intellectual, cultural and spiritual resources of the West's besmirched heritage. This article is an attempt to do this by exploring the Grail archetype as one example of these multi-faceted riches

Someone said: “The dead writers are remote from us because […]

There's irony aplenty in neo-Nazis lending their uninvited support to the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne, the incident that plunged state Liberal leader John Pesutto into a tizzy of not terribly coherent demands that conservative Moira Deeming be expelled from the party. The fact of the matter is that the original Nazis -- Rohm, Hess and their jackbooted like -- were rather keen on cute boys and hot fascist-on-fascist action

What If?! What if everything we thought we knew about […]

The Gospel of Judas The name Judas has come to […]