The Origins of Myanmar’s Coup Culture
The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.
History
Diving into Obscurity: Bran Mak Morn and Solomon Kane
The lesser-known but influential characters from the creator of Conan the Barbarian.
How Waterloo Became a Tourist Trap
Within months of the great battle, a macabre tourist trade sprang up.
When Our History Becomes Theology
We are not required to hate our own country to understand its past. And we are certainly not obliged to pretend that history ends in grievance rather than citizenship under a common law.
Part Star, Part Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall lit up 1970s American cinema – and kept going.
This Is the Logical End Point
Within this sex-triumphant climate can we really pretend to shock concerning Epstein, his brutal cronies, the rape gangs and their state-affiliated allies?
The Superhighway to Serfdom
Is this how the real robot apocalypse begins? A Centerlink clanker issuing grants to NDIS “Learing” Centres in my name, forever? Naturally, the government is handing over billions of our cash to something that’s yet to return any investment, anywhere, ever.
The Literally Fantastic Life of Christopher Lee
His strange compulsion to tell porkies about the war.
The NHS and Cousin Marriage
It’s precisely because cousin marriage is less common now that the problems it causes have become more conspicuous in Britain or other places among those accustomed to perpetuating the practice.
The Erasure of Jewish Memory
When the Holocaust is stripped of its Jewish meaning, it does not produce universal solidarity – it produces a moral vacuum in which antisemitism can once again speak the language of virtue.