a starguide for skeptics and cynics
LeoA southern-hemisphere meteor shower peaks on 12 August, so try and be somewhere you can…More
Browsing: Australian Politics
Days of Darkness
Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything.…More
Empire and Israel
The National Museum of American History is part of the celebrated Smithsonian Institution in Washington,…More
American Politics and the Middle East
My recent visit to Australia underlined the powerful similarities between Australian and American attitudes on…More
Who’s Choosing Who
When Antony Loewenstein was in his late teens, this good Jewish boy began dating an…More
From Jenin to troubled Hebron
I wanted to visit the large West Bank town of Jenin, so with a handful…More
Remote Possibilities
Malu Kiwai State School is located on the tiny Torres Strait Island of Boigu, just…More
Springing a Leak
Is this the kind of hubris that the Prime Minister has been warning his troops…More
Wraith Picket, Slush-Pile Genius
Peter Craven is alarmed that when The Australian anonymously sent a number of publishers and…More
Can't see the Forest for the Trees
According to Business Week, ethanol is the ‘white-knight fuel’. Recent studies from the University of…More