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We Need to Understand Golden Dome Before It’s Too Late
A national security initiative of this scale deserves a national conversation. Golden Dome must be explained, not whispered about. It must be understood, not assumed.
This Is Why We Should Take No One’s Word for It
‘Believe women’ is an inevitable recipe for injustice.
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Violence Is the End Result of Idealism
Trust the Age to publish a weepy paean to an unhinged murderer.
Winning in Iran Requires More Than Military Success
The enduring challenge is ensuring that those actions are part of a coherent strategy that accounts for what follows.
The Immigration of a Different Theology
Some say Matt Goodwin is dangerous. He’s not dangerous. He’s accurate. In Britain today, those are the same thing.
E-Karen Tries the Principal Skinner Approach
She hasn’t failed: it’s everyone else’s fault.
How Do Fugitives Like Dezi Freeman Evade Police for So Long?
A person going off the grid is one of the greatest challenges police face in trying to find someone, because technology serves as a person’s electronic footprint.
It Is More Than Dismal Now
My personal perspective on all this is much darker than Damien Grant’s. We have consistently failed to meet the challenges of the future over the last 25 years and each decade (or even half-decade) has felt more constrained, stressful and gloomy than the one before it.
Albert Park, three years on, and a lot has changed
The events at Albert Park in March of 2023 look less like the high-water mark of an unstoppable cultural consensus, and more like the moment the consensus began to crack.
Alfred Ngaro: Back in the Arena
Alfred Ngaro, ex National MP, leader of NewZeal Party, is now getting behind New Zealand First. But is NZ First truly becoming a ‘socially conservative’ party?
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What Will It Take to End War?
We take this as the price of the relative peace and prosperity we have come to expect. And yet it somehow doesn’t keep delivering peace and prosperity. Instead, we now have endless war and the privations and hardships that war necessarily entails.