Free Speech vs Gender Dogma
First posted on Substack August 26, 2026 Part of the crowd at the rally This is the speech I gave to the ‘Restore Women’s Rights’ rally in Martin Place, Sydney, on 23 August 2026. We Australians are mostly a tolerant bunch. We are fine with other people living their lives in all kinds of ways […]
On Jizz and Bird Worlds
First published on my Substack August 15, 2026 In the world of birding, “jizz” is a fascinating but little-used term (perhaps little used because of its other, crude meaning). Jizz refers to the overall impression of a bird—its shape, posture, movement, and “vibe”—that allows an experienced birder to identify it instantly, even without seeing field […]
The lesbian phallus, and how it found its way into the Federal Court of Australia
First published on Substack June 30, 2026 In May, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia ruled that Sall Grover, the proprietor of a women-only app Giggle for Girls, had discriminated against a transwoman, Roxanne Tickle, for denying Tickle access to the app. Sall Grover did not know that Roxanne Tickle identified as a woman. […]
The Rise of Resilience Power, and Odd Arne Westad’s Climate Disavowal
First published on my Substack June 16, 2026 The Coming Storm, the new book by Yale historian Odd Arne Westad on great powers and the prospects for world war, is attracting considerable attention. Westad’s basic argument is that today’s pattern of great-power relations bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the years preceding the First World War. The point […]
Dodgy Pronouns and Phantom Identities
First published on my Substack June 04, 2026 I have been invited to speak in Sydney about my new book on climate change at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in August. Filling out the author information form, I have been asked to nominate my gender. In fact, the form asks me to nominate my […]
Thinking the Anthropocene #3 The hallucination of modernity
First posted on my Substack June 10, 2026 This post is the third of three on the philosophy and politics of the Anthropocene. The first post can be read here and the second post can be read here. Environmental ethics By characterising the Earth as ‘defiant’ in my book of that name I am pushing against generations of […]
Thinking the Anthropocene #2 Tragedy and politics
First posted on Substack June 03, 2026 This post is the second of three on the philosophy and politics of the Anthropocene. The first post can be read here . The ‘new anthropocentrism’ describes the novel state of affairs in the human-Earth relationship. But it does not provide a political theory for responding to the Anthropocene, or […]
Thinking the Anthropocene #1 Towards a new anthropocentrism
First posted on Substack May 31, 2026 I have been pre-occupied with the Anthropocene lately as I am writing two book chapters on the subject, one on the possibility of a political philosophy of the Anthropocene and another on the idea of ‘planetary politics.’ Various related thoughts have been pushing themselves forward so I thought […]
Genderism and colonialism: How trans ideology is being imposed on the Global South
Clive Hamilton First posted on Substack May 20, 2026 When a thousand or so academics arrived at a large social science conference in an Australian capital city a couple of years ago, they soon discovered that the toilets in the convention centre were designated ‘All-gender’. Some of the women who felt uncomfortable sharing toilets with […]