The Rudd-Abbott debate came a year to the day after the passing of the great Roger Sandall, whose book, The Culture Cult, charted the distance between the Left's leading and loudest voices and all who must live with the consequences of their vanities and conceits. On Sunday night that gulf could not have been more obvious

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Mohamed Morsi had President Obama and a recent victory at the polls to argue his legitimacy, but neither was enough to save an Islamofascist from the wrath of a nation that would not be brought to heel

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Have you noticed how the modern-day Left tends not to be at war with itself as it was in the old days? No more internecine sniping over doctrinal purity. No more blame game. Where’s that old-time fissiparous spirit when you need it? These days it seems the only crime a leftist can commit in the […]

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We cannot know if Labor will tolerate Prime Minister Rudd only until Australia has voted, although that seems a fair guess. Of this, however, we can be certain: the thrill and triumph of his recent revenge will make this posturing and preposterous incompetent a genuinely dangerous man

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Secular Turkey could never be reclaimed by reactionary Islam, or so the experts thought. Erdum Gunduz and his fellow protesters know better

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His minions have unleashed the IRS against political enemies and elevated dissembling before congressional investigators to an art form. In the Middle East, it is all fuzzy nostrums and empty catchphrases. Just think, Obama has three more years yet to serve

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For one disquieting moment on Thursday, March 21, 2013, it appeared as if Julia Gillard’s colleagues might remove her from power. With the blade poised to fall, non-Labor voters around the nation muttered under their breath, “On with her head!” Conservatives and libertarians do not wish Gillard to miss her rendezvous with destiny, which is […]

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Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet by Roger Scruton Atlantic, 2012, 464 pages, $25.99 Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris Bloomsbury, 2011, 224 pages, $28.99 Despotic ideologies invariably venerate one aspect of human nature over another, perhaps the local over the universal or just as likely the […]

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The protesters wanted the world to step back from the brink of nuclear war. They will never admit it, not even now, but that is precisely what Britains then-PM achieved -- with a little help from Ronald Reagan, of course

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The Promise of Israel (Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength) by Daniel Gordi John Wiley & Sons, 2012, 256 pages, US$25.95 Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman Duke University Press, 2012, 208 pages, US$22.95 The nation-state concept long ago lost its allure for many of those on the Left. […]

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