Books & arts Frontlash Nicholas Brown 18 February 2026 Friedrich Hayek’s successors used an expanded armoury to fight their war against the state. But what explains their receptive audience?

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The first hours of Operation Epic Fury — the joint US–Israeli military offensive against Iran, launched on 28 February — demonstrated the extraordinary reach of modern precision warfare. US and ...

I wrote “ The Preservation of Pure Learning ” — my summing up of the state of Australian universities for Inside Story after more than a year of Covid-19 — from a cabin in a holiday park in Cudmirrah, ...

A thought-provoking (and entertaining) new book about revolutions doesn’t answer a question that has had our reviewer puzzled ...

Two new novels, one from Tasmania and the other from a South African writer, extend our understanding of empire and its consequences. Their settings are a century apart. Each is a hypothetical ...

Friendship is having a moment. Connoisseurs of illustrious children’s television shows like K-Pop Demon Hunters or Frozen will have noticed that Prince Charming has been usurped by Girl Gangs.

Winston Churchill arrived at the White House in December 1941 with much on his mind. It was less than a month since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and the British prime minister needed to discuss ...

This fourth and final volume of the Robert Menzies Institute’s examination of the record and legacy of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister is also its lengthiest. No fewer than twenty-two ...

“For the habitual critics of US foreign policy in general and Donald Trump’s in particular,” Ferguson wrote, “the analogy between today’s air raids against Iran and the invasion of Iraq nearly ...