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Josh Szeps

Brisbane Times

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Easter isn’t cancelled, we’re just confusing faith with culture

Easter isn’t cancelled, we’re just confusing faith with culture

Stripping festivals of religious rhetoric out of respect to minority groups denies our cultural heritage. Make this weekend about optimism, not dogma.

02.04.2026 40

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

A 4-point national plan to save us from the AI apocalypse

Rome didn’t fall because its engineers miscalculated the tensile strength of aqueducts. Countries fail when they cannot manage social, political or...

20.03.2026 20

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Identity, not economy, stupid, defines our mosaic politics these days

The ballyhoo around America’s Iran campaign and Britain’s byelection is a glimpse into our future and the forces shaping the new hodgepodge...

06.03.2026 10

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Festival tolerance of intolerance sends conversations off the rails

Instead of believing that ideas are strengthened by rational debate, much of our media and our online spaces behave as if ideas deserve to be...

20.02.2026 10

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 20

WA Today

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 20

The Age

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 10

WA Today

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 10

The Age

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 8

WA Today

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 9

The Age

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Josh Szeps