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Sep 29, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Christie Davies |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Rebecca Weisser |Paul Monk
Authorities insist on describing predators only as "Asian".
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Javier Milei |Alistair Pope |Paul Monk
Javier Milei has addressed the General Assembly. He didn't mince wordsSep 27 202410 minsIt's sheer gall in this woke age for such a thorough deplorable to show his face in publicSep 27 20246 minsWisdom begins with an awareness biases are innate and can't be seen by the untutored mindSep 27 202428 minsSeveral years ago, a senior businessman asked to meet me for a coffee, because he wanted to learn a little more about what my company, Austhink Consulting, does.
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May 27, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Adam Garfinkle |Holly Lawford-Smith |Rainer Zitelmann |Paul Monk
Planets sometimes line up metaphorically as well as astronomically. My 1995 book Telltale Hearts: The Origin and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement and my 2009 book Jewcentricity: Why Jews Are Praised, Blamed, and Used to Explain Just About Everything have aligned in recent weeks thanks to the campus upheavals over the Gaza war.
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May 26, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Rainer Zitelmann |Paul Monk |Ewan Morrison |Timandra Harkness
The widely discussed private space missions financed by billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are only part of a far larger development in the space industry, where the focus is shifting from government agencies to private companies.
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May 24, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Paul Monk |Ewan Morrison |Timandra Harkness |Iona Italia
On Sunday 19 May, a 1970s US-made Bell 212 helicopter carrying the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian crashed as it flew back to Tehran from Azerbaijan. Both men and several other passengers were killed. Raisi was a widely detested figure known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” and there has been a good deal of rejoicing in Iran at the news of his death. We should share that sentiment.
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May 6, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Helen Pluckrose |Rainer Zitelmann |Paul Monk |Ewan Morrison
Editor’s Note: The following essay first appeared in Areo Magazine in March 2017 and is reproduced here with the author’s permission. In this piece, Helen Pluckrose outlines some of the arguments later explored in depth in her bestselling 2020 book, Cynical Theories (co-authored with James Lindsay). The essay charts the pernicious influence of postmodernist thinking on two generations of academics and activists.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
ipa.org.au | Scott Hargreaves |Paul Monk
A new book challenging our international alliances underlines the need to make AUKUS even more transparent and robust, urges former intelligence analyst Paul Monk. There has been a good deal of sniping at AUKUS, despite bipartisan political consensus on it between the Coalition and the ALP. Not until now has there been a thorough critique of it.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Paul Monk |Glen Norris |Nathan Schmidt
Federal government expands scope of COVID-19 inquiryVideo paused due to user inactivityContinue watching? Revellers have been warned to take precautions during New Year’s Eve celebrations, including the world-famous Sydney fireworks, as Covid cases continue to rise. NSW Health on Thursday asked residents to “keep your loved ones Covid safe” over the holiday period despite the complete relaxation of Covid-related rules statewide.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
quillette.com | David Benatar |Paul Monk |Ewan Morrison |Timandra Harkness
The phrases “from the river to the sea” and “Palestine will be free” serve as a call and response in many protests on behalf of Palestinians or against Israel. Both the prevalence and the controversy surrounding the refrain “from the river to the sea” have increased since Hamas’s 7 October attack. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was recently censured by the US House of Representatives, in part for her endorsement of the slogan.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
ipa.org.au | Paul Monk |Scott Hargreaves
A remarkable new book explains how the USA became the Promised Land for its Jewish citizens, writes former intelligence analyst Paul Monk. American academic and author Walter Russell Mead has devoted his career to the close study of the Anglo-American world order, rather as American political scientist Aaron Friedberg has done. The scholarship Mead has produced makes him an authoritative figure, and always worth reading. This present book is no exception.
