Various cultures have a flood myth, curated to reflect a local narrative at the expense of interconnectedness and the multiplicity of responses to catastrophes.
In the tales of the Arabian, Nights, Scheherazade paints the complexities of life and posits ethical solutions to the contemporary issues.
Introduction John Winston Howard, Australia's 25th Prime Minister, served from 1996 to 2007, a period marked by economic prosperity, conservative reforms, and a series of controversial policies that have left…
The origins of Western culture are not purely Christian, but drawn from a broad array of civilisiations across both east and west.
Representation is a practical condition underlying the capacity for institutions to act with fairness and legitimacy.
In the convulsive decades of the 20th century – when the United States was convulsed by civil rights struggles at home and an increasingly unpopular war abroad – two Catholic…
Simple, yet vast beyond measure, Three fires have lit my path, Three hungers, more urgent than hunger, More vital than the very breath I draw.First is the longing for love…
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.