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The Rise of China is the Real End of History
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. - Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts Reprising Hegel's view that the Battle of Jena in 1806...
Left's delusions laid bare
This year sounded the death knell for the euro, government stimulus packages and international action on climate change. The year should therefore...
New technology and the call for censorship
The first recorded call for press censorship wasn't for reasons of politics, or heresy, or public morality. It was to police "quality". The...
How Tony Abbott should fight the culture wars
The best way for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to win the cultural wars might actually be to withdraw the government from them. One of the greatest...
The capitalist heroes we forget
The death of Steve Jobs has offered us a symbol which is surprisingly rare: the capitalist as a hero. The tributes to the Apple co-founder have...
Award is work of many men
Sir Isaac Newton, that great creature of the Scientific Revolution, once humbly declared, ``If I have seen further it is by standing on the...
Ethical perversion, not peace, is Chomsky's raison d'etre
This article appeared on 'The Drum' at: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2751644.html In its infinite lack of wisdom, the Sydney Peace Foundation...
Audience on their feet for a fraud who called bin Laden his brother
David Hicks appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival to discuss his autobiography Guantanamo: My Journey. And along for the ride was an audience of...
Multiculturalism is a useless word
Multiculturalism is one of the least useful words in Australian politics. It owes all its power to ambiguity. It is divisive because it is vague....
West's history not complete without reference to Christianity
Julia Gillard's declaration over the weekend that she would like the Bible taught in schools seems odd, given she's Australia's most prominent...