The Minefield

How should we wrestle with the problem of loving the art, but being unsettled by the behav... more

Could a stand-up routine ever rise to the level of "art" — the kind of performance that re... more

When saving face is paramount to all other considerations, others invariably pay the price... more

There are few things more peculiar to a person than their preferences; why they favour one... more

AI is sometimes portrayed in utopian terms as the essential technological innovation. At o... more

It is one of the casualties of democratic politics that citizens rarely remain indifferent... more

In the world of book sales, what “romantasy” is to fiction, autobiography/memoir is to non... more

It feels like, for so much of this year, in one form or another, we’ve been trying to coun... more

Earlier this month, in response to a disturbing rise in youth crime in Melbourne, Victoria... more

Ever since 2023, a class of GPL-1 based drugs — which for two decades were used to treat t... more

The availability of increasingly powerful generative AI tools has radically altered  [the ... more

For the last two years, there has been a steady drumbeat of protests — sometimes weekly, s... more

For the second time this year, millions of people have taken to the streets of cities and ... more

There is no doubt that silence can be a form of cowardice: a refusal to speak up or speak ... more

The politics of immigration has returned in recent months — and returned with a depth of f... more

In a remarkable column from 1944, George Orwell bemoaned the sheer range of social and pol... more

This week is the first ever “Minefield Mailbag”, where Waleed and Scott try to respond to ... more