Has there ever been a publicity campaign to equal Christopher Nolan’s for his film of Homer’s Odyssey? Just recently, the historian Tom Holland — famous podcaster — has been the object of abuse from ...

Moral certainty is turning disagreement into heresy, imposing social, professional and legal costs on dissenters and fuelling a  populist backlash it claims to oppose. Can Australia recover the ...

A seven-step plan to defeat Iran may look coherent on paper. But it depends on fragile alliances, unpredictable leaders and a willingness to impose human costs that no military strategy can reliably ...

Pauline Hanson wants to defund SBS and place the ABC behind a metropolitan paywall. What would Australia lose if its public broadcasters and the shared culture and democratic connection they sustain ...

Following its decision to consecrate four bishops without papal approval, the Society of Saint Pius X faces renewed charges of schism, reopening a decades-old struggle over tradition, authority and ...

When the Christian Brothers religious order cannot meet their remaining obligations to survivors of sexual abuse, who should cover the shortfall? Does justice require Australia’s entire Catholic ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is compositionally brilliant, visually audacious and almost deafening. But amid its gods, monsters and turbulent seas, the language, romance and poetry that gave the ...

The great classic plays will never stop speaking to audiences, but directors will often be tempted to update them for modern audiences. But the finest revivals of O’Neill and Williams reveal that ...

A Friday evening ride to Warburton became an unexpected challenge to modern life: perhaps fulfilment comes not from optimising ourselves, but from losing ourselves in music, landscape, and the rhythm ...

Why do patients fear statins and hormone therapy yet trust the promises of wellness culture? The placebo effect reveals how expectation, misinformation and rituals of care influence which treatments ...