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Today I’m joined by Misha Saul. Misha is an investor and entrepreneur here in Sydney, and he runs the Substack…

I.Scene One: My father is shaving. I’m thirteen and watching him drag his straight razor across his face. We’d been…

A review of I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the Victim as Hero by Pascal Bruckner; 272 pages; Polity (September…

A review of Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 224 Pages, Penguin Random House (August 2026)The overwhelming sensation…

‘This Country Is But One Scene of Massacre’ In the 31st instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the…

The countdown to the Israeli general elections scheduled for 27 October officially began on Tuesday (8 September) when the contending…

This week, we’re going to be talking about the cost of affirmative action. And by cost, I mean the literal…

On 15 October 2020, Jeffrey Toobin started masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues. Toobin had reached the rarefied heights…

Richard Landes on Jihad and the Apocalyptic Mind Read the full article here

The Real End of the Arab–Israeli Conflict? The strategic case for Syria–Israel normalisation. Read the full article here

International development assistance isn’t a subject that has traditionally attracted sustained media attention. But that has changed during Donald Trump’s…

Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not…