As we review 2025, the temptation is to look for neat summaries and settled conclusions. By returning to Coalition with a declining National Party, the Liberals have doubled down on policies and demographics that alienate urban voters and younger Australians. As debate over capital gains tax returns to parliament, long
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America’s record of failed wars exposes the limits of military power and raises serious questions about Australia’s continued reliance on the United States. So, despite its enormous military capability, why has the American so-called superpower been so devastatingly unsuccessful in…
Eisenhower warned that US policy could be captured by a military-industrial and scientific-technological elite. Ukraine is now paying the price. Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine…
Modern despots increasingly mimic the language and rituals of democracy while concentrating power through manipulation, spectacle, nationalism and the managed consent of their citizens. Polls show that millions of people are equally anxious about another unpromising political trend: a strange…