James Boyce

Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s ‘Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?’ challenges ideas of progress championed by Bruce Pascoe

There are good reasons why Australians won’t pick fruit

Might challenges to neoliberal orthodoxies emerge from the pandemic, as challenges to Christian faith did after the Black Death?

A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’

Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the climate crisis?

The literary storyteller’s latest novel wrestles with the mythology of Christianity’s founder, Paul the Apostle

Australia’s world-beating gambling addiction and the deception hiding it

What do we know about the prime minister’s Pentecostalism?

Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art

Australia’s founders would be shocked at today’s interpretation of the Constitution

How transformative has the computer age really been?

Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene in 1976, the book that established his reputation and which, his closest supporters maintain, ‘takes pride of place among his achievements’. With it, he helped popularise the idea that not only the …

Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the coastlands of the temperate zone – were like before European settlement. Such has been the transformation of the …