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 ...

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 ...

Children are spending more time with screens and less time talking, imagining and playing. As Toy Story 5 tackles the issue, ...

Victoria's Chief Commissioner of Police wants mandatory minimum sentences for repeat youth offenders. Yet he also designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online ...

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 ...

Australia's dependence on imported fuel reveals an economic philosophy that prizes lower consumer prices while paying far less attention to resilience, productive capacity and the long-term costs of ...

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 ...

After years of scandals, Australia is weighing its biggest shake-up of the Big Four in decades. But breaking up audit and consulting firms may not restore trust if the incentives and culture that ...