The scandalous denizens of the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1816 were some of the leading figures in all literary history. The demands they made on themselves and those around them were extreme, and none could have known how little time some had left

The Hidden Words of Jesus: “These are the hidden words […]

The attempted assassination of 'Putin's Brain' Aleksandr Dugin and the resulting death of his daughter will undoubtedly elevate the war in Ukraine to another level of bloody brutality. We will soon see whether Dugin’s analysis of the decadence, weakness, and ultimate cowardice of the West in reacting to such an escalation is accurate

Opposition to the war ceased to be a matter of traditional political activity involving compromise and pragmatism, becoming instead a form of metapolitics involving moral absolutism, existential urgency, personal identity and profound alienation from society. That legacy of elevating important questions to a quasi-religious status lingers yet, as may be seen at any climate change rally

The ancient cache discovered in Qumran's caves consists of some 981 ancient Jewish religious manuscripts along with many thousands of fragments -- on that all who have been involved over more than seven decades of rivalries, secrecy, subterfuge and bitter theological dispute can agree. Beyond that, the fraught and fiercely contested question of their authorship remains

The ancient cache discovered in Qumran's caves consists of some 981 ancient Jewish religious manuscripts along with many thousands of fragments -- on that all who have been involved over more than seven decades of rivalries, secrecy, subterfuge and bitter theological dispute can agree. Beyond that, the fraught and fiercely contested question of their authorship remains

Long before he won the appointment he coveted as Australia's official war correspondent, Bean had travelled, understood and wrote about life in the bush. It was an environment that didn’t encourage hierarchy or servility, but bred instead the stoicism, egalitarianism and mateship that he was to locate at the core of the Anzac spirit

Mystery, myth and legend surround the second and third of the horrendous conflicts between Jews and Romans, leaving historians with the daunting task of weighing the zealotry, schisms and slaughters that ultimately led to the destruction of the Temple and may well have accounted for the concealment in their desert caves of the Dead sea Scrolls

The ancient cache discovered in Qumran's caves consists of some 981 ancient Jewish religious manuscripts along with many thousands of fragments -- on that all who have been involved over more than seven decades of rivalries, secrecy, subterfuge and bitter theological dispute can agree. Beyond that, the fraught and fiercely contested question of their authorship remains