In light of the ongoing guessing game about the identity of the former politician ASIO chief Mike Burgess asserts was an intelligence asset of an unnamed foreign power -- widely assumed to be China -- Paul Monk's magisterial examination from 2012 of the Middle Kingdom's methods is well worth reprising

Lyle Shelton’s earnest arguments against legalising prostitution, pornography and 'adult entertainment' are at no point hateful or bigoted, as his critics charge. But he seems reluctant to accept that in all these cases he is grappling with social issues that have no simple solutions, least of all the invoking of 'Biblical sexual morality' as the gold standard

Our soi disant progressives tend to discourage us these days […]

History, like science, is about discriminating between myths and realities, not choosing a beguiling alternative myth as a 'different way of seeing'. The latter is the driving conceit behind the best-selling author's fauxboriginal revisionism, now being taught in schools near you

Hugh White's fantastic scenario for the wholesale restructuring of our armed forces is unhinged from reality. Rather, what we should be doing is making plain to Beijing and our neighbours that while we welcome China’s increased prosperity and are keen to trade under liberal rules, we will under no circumstances be kowtowing to Beijing

I had hoped Attorney-General Christian Porter might finally see fit to put his weight behind my efforts to bring into the open the long-concealed Cook Report into ASIO's deep penetration during the Cold War. The reply from his freshly washed hands might better have been signed 'Pontius Pilate on the Molonglo'

Almost exactly forty years ago (November 1978), a special issue […]

Admiration for Princeton professor Glen Warren Bowersock's distinguished career and great learning inspired a reverent anticipation as I took up his latest book, 'The Crucible of Islam', which professes to examine the origins of that creed. Alas, that reverence was grossly misplaced

When our Christian ancestors migrated to the southern hemisphere, they faced the problem of inverted seasons — and did nothing about it! That’s why we sing “Jingle Bells” and “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” in the middle of the Australian summer