At a time when diminishing numbers of students elect to study serious history and those who do are often taught by ideologues, no genuine recognition of the Russian Revolution's colossal tragedy is allowed to enter the minds of the Western democracies's populations

The moles who operated in ASIO are living in quiet retirement, but the agency's official historians aren't allowed to tell us their names. As long as ASIO insists on protecting its 'reputation' from the truth it will anger and disconcert those whose trust it most needs

Our mortality, our groundlessness and our insatiability, asserts Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, are ineradicable flaws in the human condition. We need a religion that acknowledges these realities unflinchingly and builds itself unyieldingly on the granite foundation of existential realism that they provide

Harry Gelber’s review (December 2015) of the first volume of […]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that reason, not blind adherence to Islam's sacred verses, must guide Muslims to a better way. While her optimism is admirable, those who share her convictions would do well to recall that, if Europe is her model, the process was neither quick nor yet complete

One hears that many people are reading the memoirs of […]

One Saturday evening in late January, I sat down for […]

Slaying the dragon? It might seem from my title that […]

Consider two outlying statistical extrapolations: the 2010 estimate by Nobel […]