Australia needs unity, not division in the wake of the Bondi terrorist incident, but first we need to grieve.
I often write reflections here, but today I offer something different – a lyrical composition meant to be read aloud, breathed in, and carried with you. It is a song…
Avi Shlaim views Israel's Gaza policies as settler-colonialism leading to ethnic cleansing & genocide, rooted in Zionism's history of displacement.
I am the atom, silent seed— Born in the first bright thunder, I’ve spun through stars in endlessneed, And watched their dust go under. When Earth was fire and cooling…
Issues of social justice that are cast as "woke" entrench the very disadvantage and shame that efforts at equality endeavour to eradicate.
From Tulsa's 1921 massacre to Gaza's siege & Rohingya exile in Myanmar's purges, regimes fuse nationalism & faith to mask atrocities, suppress justice.
In eighteen hours of depraved terror, Tulsa Oklahoma was the scene of a massacre of mostly Black people, for which survivors and their descendants still seek accountability.
Contemporary social and political extremism represents an expansive moral cowardice that threatens inclusion and genuine democracies.
The multi-faceted nature of the Palestinian conflict creates a complex environment in which foreseeable tragedy is weighed against a less certain societal impact.
The intellectual genius and breadth of knowledge of the west's first female historian demonstrates her extensive knowledge of philosophy, literature, grammar, theology, astronomy, and medicine.
The lessons of Nuremberg are being forgotten as the world plunges into an age of self-indulgence.
Thursday, I rode the evening rails, Silver tracks hissing under the city’s scars – Ordinary, almost, but for a man: Threadbare, hair wild as winter grass, Clutching a cardboard plea…
A history of a meeting of two civilisations in one small painting.
White Nationalism undermines democracy, condoning unethical principles including violence and an illusory nostalgia based upon lies.
John Fugelsang’s Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds arrives at a moment when the intersection of…
In slanted sun, the elders sit, Their hands a map of years and wit – Wrinkled skin, a thousand lines Tracing constellations time defines. Within their eyes, moonlight rests, A…
I snatched a leaf from its branch mid-dance, then set it free to whirl,I whispered secrets through the pines, echoing in their needle veils, I stirred the lake's surface into…
Shame is not a primal instinct, but a conditioned response, one based on the values we develop as we mature.
He kneels, yet will not bow his head – Night gathers round, the field is lost, But from his wounds and earth-stained skin Still blazes pride, undimmed by cost. His…