Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins with the tightest of closeups of one of Rose Byrne’s eyeballs. And that relentless sense of proximity never really lets up; this is a film that ...

Books & arts Australia in the world Graeme Dobell 8 August 2025 An indispensable seventy-year record of foreign policy reaches its thirteenth volume Books & arts How Australia does security and ...

International Benefits and costs Michael Jacobs 29 June 2025 Keir Starmer is paying a heavy price for spending cuts that lacked a defensible rationale International A shift in the climate for COP29 ...

AI will inevitably play a role in medicine, as it will in many fields of work. It’s already arrived in the form of scribe programs that produce consultation notes and chatbots t ...

Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination ...

Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired ...

Back in December 2009, Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of his party was disposed of over climate change policy. Or was it? Deep down, his demise was driven by terrible opinion polls that put the federal ...

In the first Asian tour of his second presidency, Donald Trump attracted higher than ever levels of praise, sycophancy and financial pledges from the region’s leaders. But a social media post might ...

Tuesday this week was a very good day for Democrats and a very bad day for both MAGA and the oligarchy. If I were a properly house-trained pundit, I would immediately follow that statement by throwing ...

For a man widely considered the pre-eminent American conservative of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley was something of a paradox. To begin with, he was a zealot for freedom who distrusted the ...

When Josephine Baker’s ashes were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris on 30 November 2021 many French people were surprised. Why was an American-born performer, known mainly for her energetic ...

Books & arts Now, down to business Patrick Mullins 2 October 2025 “A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other ...