Fate of the West
Where Western civilization is headed. History, demography, culture and power, with serious attention to both decline and renewal.
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Josh Frydenberg on Bondi, Antisemitism and A Grateful Son
Josh Frydenberg was Treasurer of Australia from 2018 to 2022 and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, steering the economy through the pandemic. For 12 years he held the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, until he lost it to an independent at the 2022 election. His mother was born in Budapest in 1943, survived the Holocaust as a baby, and arrived in Australia as a stateless refugee.
Maria Monk and the Kamloops Graves Panic
Two centuries before the claimed discovery of non-existent ‘unmarked graves’ in British Columbia, a wave of bestselling ‘convent exposés’ purported to detail mass rape and child murder among priests and nuns.
A Dishonest (and Dangerous) Nobel Laureate
On 9 October, some 48 hours after the commemoration of the Hamas massacres in Israel, South African jurist Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Pillay has enjoyed a long juridical career that has included the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and adjudicating the Rwandan genocide.
Common People
A wonderful new book by Stephen Wade, America’s greatest living folklorist, chronicles the history of the country’s folk music.
How Genetics Rewrote History
For the last 2,500 years, since Herodotus and Thucydides pioneered the Western tradition of history, the discipline has been one of the load-bearing intellectual foundations of our culture. In 1905, the philosopher George Santayana famously stated that those “who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Long before this, Western civilisation had taken a particular interest in its past, not just for matters of intellectual curiosity, but for the lessons it can teach us.
Equal Pay, Unequal Work
We frequently hear that American women earn only about 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. Whatever the merits of that familiar comparison, professional tennis offers a striking reversal. At the 2026 US Open, the male champion earned approximately 52 cents for every dollar earned by the female champion—at least when prize money is divided by the time each spent competing on court.
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