Abram Goldberg’s century-long life was a testament to survival, love, and moral clarity. From Auschwitz to Melbourne, he kept ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first exhortation, Dilexi Te, builds on Pope Francis’ vision of a “Church for the poor,” confronting the moral ...

In a world trained to see only the bricks, not the mortar, we miss the forces that bind us. From Rovelli’s physics to ...

As Russian drones stray across borders and American resolve falters, old Cold War reflexes return. And as deterrence weakens ...

Across the Pacific, women continue to shoulder the weight of inequality, denied education, safety, and opportunity in nations ...

Belvoir’s revival of Life Is a Dream returns one of Europe’s most dazzling metaphysical dramas to the stage — Calderón’s eerie parable of freedom, fate and illusion, written amid Spain’s golden age.

Australia trains more PhDs than ever before—10,000 a year—but offers few places for them to work. A system built on perverse incentives rewards universities for producing scholars it won’t employ, ...

In April, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act (UK) 2010 refer to biological sex. It was a landmark decision that has reignited global debate about the ...

The Iliad never goes away. There's a not very successful Troy at Melbourne’s Malthouse and there’s news that the Sydney Theatre Company is set to have David Wenham as a tired old bard who tells the ...

Last week the Australian Government issued its Net Zero by 2050 Plan and its Emissions Target by 2035. That document, along with the National Climate Risk Assessment with its cataclysmic scenario of a ...

The eighth book in the Cormoran Strike series has already dominated global bestseller lists despite being largely ignored in Australia, except, surprisingly, by The Guardian. The New York Times and ...

For large-scale lunacy it is hard to beat the proponents of the AI industry, which is dominating the US financial markets. If their claims are taken at face value, they will destroy the society on ...