Historical
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Shoeshops, tailors, TV repairs: a photographic homage to Melbourne’s vanishing small businesses is a form of time travel
Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class,…
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If Australia was more democratic, would its economic policies be better?
It comes from the ancient Greek word “ostraka,” which referred to shards of broken pottery or stone. Gareth Hutchens ABC…
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A 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ has been unearthed in Egypt
The lost city, known as Aten, is believed to have been founded by King Amenhotep III, the ninth king of…
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The Holocaust Began Not With Concentration Camps, But With Hateful Rhetoric.
As people around the world pause this Thursday to observe the solemn occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is worth…
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A First-Hand View of 70 Years of China-US Relations
Few people have experienced the ups and down of China-U.S. relations as closely, and for as long, as Dr. Chi…
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Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History
This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the…
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What Joe Biden Can Learn from the Greek War of Independence
We need to find the right balance for today. Paul Glastris Washington Monthly Few presidents have entered the White House…
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Easter promise: the patisserie built on a friendship that bridges Istanbul’s divides
Fehmi Yıldıran remembers how, growing up in the Anatolian town of Bolu, every spring he and the other children used…
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China’s Hong Kong crackdown was decades in the making
The Iron Lady has been proven right. Stan Grant ABC News Today, the Chinese Communist Party has a stranglehold on…
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What Bobby Sands means to me: ‘The hunger strikers chose to die. Daddy didn’t’
Yet for others he deserves no accolades, no admiration. Freya McClements The Irish Times They point out that he was…
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”I have not found God in the universe, but Einstein did, in the perfection and the beauty of his laws”
Eduardo Battaner López (Burgos, 1945) has not looked for God in physics, but he has looked for the physicists who…
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Nick Fotiou, the milk bar owner who was waiting for customers who would never arrive, has moved out
Owner Nick Fotiou, who has been holding out in the old Olympia since it was closed after falling into disrepair,…
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Christianity has touched Australian law more deeply than we admit
How far does a person’s faith shape their professional life? Michael Pelly Financial Review And when it comes to politics…
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Confused about the massive ship stuck diagonally across the Suez Canal?
It’s not every day Egypt’s Suez Canal makes international headlines. Zena Chamas ABC News In fact, many people may have…
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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts
Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a…
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The Coming Demographic Collapse of China
Today, the country has a population more than four times larger than America’s. Gordon G. Chang The National Interest By…
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