Philosophical musings, moral dilemmas, case-based insight
Twenty-five years after the Founders’ Strike, Atlantis appears to have won. Yet Club Atlantis, once the social and economic heart of the community, is in decline. Through a conversation between an ageing John Galt and a young visitor, Club Atlantis explores a question Atlas Shrugged never asked: what happens when productive people continue creating value but stop investing in the institutions that make value creation possible?
This article documents a 2024–26 NSW domestic‑violence case in which a high‑risk victim who sought police protection was misidentified as the perpetrator after false counter‑allegations were accepted without investigation. Despite extreme‑risk scores under mandatory assessment tools, protections were not triggered, evidence was lost, and oversight bodies declined to intervene — leading to serious, lasting harm.
Police bias in NSW is enabling domestic abusers to weaponise DV laws against victims. This article reveals how the current playbook fails, how system abuse flourishes, and what reforms are urgently needed to restore fairness, safety, and accountability.
A man reports domestic abuse — and becomes the suspect. This essay examines how misidentification, gendered assumptions, and institutional blindness can turn the justice system into an instrument of harm. When the State chooses not to see, justice becomes something far more dangerous than impartial.
America has long mythologized its Second Amendment as a safeguard against tyranny. With Trump openly enacting an authoritarian regime, one must ask: have Tyler Robinson and Luigi Mangione fired the first shots in a long-anticipated civil resistance movement? Not righteous. Not clean. But perhaps, in their minds, necessary.
I’m sick of having to express my frustration with the legal profession only in the form of lawyer jokes. The punchline has worn thin. It’s time the legal profession stopped laughing all the way to the bank, and started acting in the interests of its clients.
The adversarial system was built to protect the innocent. But when silence is imposed, and truth is filtered through strategy, the contest becomes theatre—and the stakes are human lives.
How grievance-driven men’s rights activists undermine genuine survivors — and what institutions must do to stop them
This article continues the account tracing the journey of a domestic violence survivor failed not just by police and legal counsel — but dismissed by the very institution tasked with holding lawyers to account.
If the institutions meant to protect victims continue to fail them, the consequences extend far beyond those individuals. Some, like myself, may be driven to the edge of suicide. Others may commit acts of desperation that hurt not only themselves, but those around them. This is not to excuse such outcomes — but to recognise the role that systemic neglect plays in escalating harm. Prevention begins with accountability, empathy, and reform.
