The youth gender gap is because young women have moved left

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The youth gender gap is because young women have moved left

Why Most Australian Writers’ Festivals Are Pro-Palestinian

Australian writers’ festivals are frequently accused of being “pro-Palestinian” or anti-Israeli. The charge is usually made in frustration: panels on Gaza and Palestinian literature are common; strongly pro-Israel voices are rare; and anyone who questions the imbalance is quickly told they are confusing “balance” with “morality”. Yet the more interesting question is not whether a […]

Why Most Australian Writers’ Festivals Are Pro-Palestinian

Jack Smith’s Secret Orders Targeting Patel and Wiles Should Alarm Us All

Below is my column on Fox.com on the new disclosures of secret orders targeting now FBI Director Kash Patel and…

Jack Smith’s Secret Orders Targeting Patel and Wiles Should Alarm Us All

More Bark Than Bite: Kaine’s War Powers Resolution is an “Imminent” Failure

We now have a glimpse of the War Powers Resolution promised by Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.), which is reportedly…

More Bark Than Bite: Kaine’s War Powers Resolution is an “Imminent” Failure

The Clintons and the Politics of Scandal

Below is my column in the Hill on the deposition of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State…

The Clintons and the Politics of Scandal

One view of Iranian strategy

Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel’s war on Iran: 1. Tehran is not looking for a ceasefire and has rejected outreach from Trump. The reason is that they believe they committed a mistake by agreeing to the ceasefire in June – it only enabled the US and Israel to restock and remobilize to…

One view of Iranian strategy

Epic Fury: Trump Can Rely on Past Democratic Presidents for the Authority to Attack Iran

Below is my column on Fox.com on the legal authority for Operation Epic Fury. There are good-faith arguments that such…

Epic Fury: Trump Can Rely on Past Democratic Presidents for the Authority to Attack Iran

So much for being a refugee

The Herald reports: New Zealand citizen and Algerian political activist Ahmed Zaoui has been released from prison after more than two years behind bars. Zaoui was arrested at gunpoint in the city of Medea in 2023 for holding a political meeting at his home and commenting on the “political and human rights situation” in the country.  He…

So much for being a refugee

The Treaty – Drowning in a sea of misinformation in 2026

I write this as a descendant of Henry Williams, who arrived here in 1823 as an ex Royal Navy officer and Head of the Church Missionary Society of New Zealand. He translated the Treaty of Waitangi into te reo Maori in 1840. The document he prepared with his eldest son Edward, on the evening of […]

The Treaty – Drowning in a sea of misinformation in 2026

LINDSAY MITCHELL: HOW THE SALLIES HAVE EVOLVED TO BECOME PART OF THE PROBLEM

The 2026 Salvation Army State of the Nation Report revealed their official conversion to wokeism by repeatedly finding excuses for Maori over-representation in poor social stats because of victimisation through colonisation. This caused a number of readers to ponder future contributions to the organisation. But it isn’t just this development that should concern donors. The…

LINDSAY MITCHELL: HOW THE SALLIES HAVE EVOLVED TO BECOME PART OF THE PROBLEM

The abomination of Britain’s Gorton and Denton by-election

The UK is having one of its regular by-elections, this time in Gorton and Denton, a constituency in Manchester.  The constituency was new at the 2024 election, and at the time was won by Labour’s Andrew Gwynne with 50.8% of the vote, with Reform a distant second on 14.1%. Gwynne had been an MP for…

The abomination of Britain’s Gorton and Denton by-election

The Party Dominated Economy, Part 2

The NY Times realizes that Trump is not a free market capitalist

The Party Dominated Economy, Part 2

The history of anti-semitism

Ashley Church writes: The Holocaust did not begin with the gas chambers of Auschwitz or Treblinka. It began much earlier, with ideas, laws, exclusions, and the slow normalisation of cruelty. The part that history often forgets. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, there was no plan to exterminate the Jews. What did exist…

The history of anti-semitism

Jesse Singal’s op-ed in the NYT: A turning point in “affirmative care”?

For two reasons I think that Jesse Singal‘s long op-ed (really a “guest essay”) in today’s NYT will mark a turning point in public and professional attitudes towards “affirmative care.”  First, the NYT saw fit to publish a piece showing that many American medical associations have promoted “affirmative care” of gender-dysphoric adolescents, despite those associations…

Jesse Singal’s op-ed in the NYT: A turning point in “affirmative care”?

“Tough on crime” is good for young men

Using data from hundreds of closely contested partisan elections from 2010 to 2019 and a vote share regression discontinuity design, we find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20 to 29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths, including a large reduction in firearm…

“Tough on crime” is good for young men

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