As Australia raises the social-media account age to 16, responsibility for online safety shifts from families to tech giants.

A hundred years on, The Great Gatsby endures as a shimmering enigma, a novel of doomed hope, ruthless wealth, and lyrical ...

John Tomasi of Heterodox Academy argues that universities can only fulfil their role as engines of democratic learning when ...

As public life seems to coarsen, ordinary Australians continue to practise steady, often unseen acts of care. Their endurance ...

In the weeks following the passing of Tom Stoppard, his characters returned to remind us that irony endures. On a park bench, ...

A newly unsealed court filing shows the tech giant connected children to predators on a scale much larger than previously ...

Two defining figures of modern music, Irish songwriter Van Morrison and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, marked their 80th and 82nd birthdays this year. They are octogenarian survivors of the 60s ...

It seems to me that hope is a natural accompaniment to youth. In the best circumstances, that is. Of course many young people lose hope, and for many sad reasons. This didn’t happen to me: I’m quite ...

I am not a catastrophist, but I am happy to wear the moniker of “alarmist” if ringing alarm bells can spur people into useful action. Because while there is plenty of commentary across the world, ...

It seems the longest time since J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books burst upon the world. There’s the distinct memory of the CDs arriving and they sounded like a jolly good thing when they were ...