<![CDATA[The Modern Enquirer]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VSKJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbec06c8a-c9d3-413b-b552-5ffcf7f38344_416x416.pngThe Modern Enquirerhttps://www.themodernenquirer.comSubstackThu, 30 Apr 2026 10:28:22 GMT<![CDATA[America Has No Exit Strategy Because Iran Has No Incentive to Stop Fighting]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/america-has-no-exit-strategy-becausehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/america-has-no-exit-strategy-becauseSat, 14 Mar 2026 02:44:30 GMT

The central assumption guiding much of the commentary on the current conflict is that Iran will eventually look for a way out.

That assumption may be wrong.

And if it is wrong, the United States has a …

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]]><![CDATA[AI Has Entered The Kill Chain ]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/ai-has-entered-the-kill-chainhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/ai-has-entered-the-kill-chainThu, 12 Mar 2026 04:32:51 GMT

Artificial intelligence is changing how wars are fought. It doesn’t fire weapons. It decides what human commanders see as targets—and the race between great powers means the system will only move fas…

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]]><![CDATA[Australia gutted its energy infrastructure chasing net zero — now we’re running on empty]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/australia-gutted-its-energy-infrastructurehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/australia-gutted-its-energy-infrastructureWed, 11 Mar 2026 01:21:20 GMT

Australia’s political class has spent the last decade dismantling its own energy infrastructure in pursuit of perhaps the most economically self-destructive policy in the nation’s peacetime history.

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]]><![CDATA[How Britain’s Oil Crisis Led to the CIA-Backed Coup in Iran]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/how-britains-oil-crisis-led-to-thehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/how-britains-oil-crisis-led-to-theMon, 09 Mar 2026 22:23:20 GMT
Mohammad Mossadegh addresses supporters during the crisis over Iran’s nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, early 1950s.

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]]><![CDATA[The First AI Infrastructure War]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/how-the-race-to-beat-china-at-aihttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/how-the-race-to-beat-china-at-aiSat, 07 Mar 2026 07:52:18 GMT

The U.S. strike on Iran in February 2026 was the result of converging pressures: a global AI race with China, the degradation of Iran’s regional proxies, and the transformation of warfare around tech…

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]]><![CDATA[Bombing the Same Problem Twice]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/irans-nuclear-program-is-so-stronghttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/irans-nuclear-program-is-so-strongWed, 04 Mar 2026 22:18:38 GMT

Last June, Donald Trump declared that American airstrikes had destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. One year later, the United States is bombing Iran to stop it.

It’s an impressive feat of logic.

After str…

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]]><![CDATA[The Return of Regime Change — and the End of America First]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-return-of-regime-change-and-thehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-return-of-regime-change-and-theSun, 01 Mar 2026 23:54:04 GMT

By Nick Holt
Monday, 2 March 2025

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]]><![CDATA[Why an Old-Fashioned Ciggie Now Feels Strangely Radical]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/why-an-old-fashioned-ciggie-now-feelshttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/why-an-old-fashioned-ciggie-now-feelsTue, 03 Feb 2026 04:35:10 GMT

Whenever I see someone having a cigarette, I think: good on you. It’s nice to see someone with an old-fashioned ciggie.

To be clear: I’m not nostalgic for lung cancer. That’s not what’s being saluted …

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]]><![CDATA[Could Pauline Hanson Become Prime Minister? The Question Australia Is No Longer Laughing At]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/could-pauline-hanson-become-primehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/could-pauline-hanson-become-primeMon, 26 Jan 2026 05:05:56 GMT

The Modern Enquirer
Jan 26, 2026

By Nick Holt

For more than a century, federal power in Australia has rotated between two political blocs: Labor and the Liberal–National Coalition — a partnership that, …

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]]><![CDATA[The Antisemitism Bill Collapses Under Its Own Logic]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-antisemitism-bill-collapses-underhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-antisemitism-bill-collapses-underThu, 22 Jan 2026 06:11:38 GMT

After the Bondi Beach mass shooting, the Albanese government faced a problem it could not quickly explain or contain.

The pressure was ferocious and the questions were multiplying. So the government …

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]]><![CDATA[Maduro "Captured" Following Years of U.S. Criminal Charges and Escalating Bounties]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/maduro-captured-following-years-ofhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/maduro-captured-following-years-ofSat, 03 Jan 2026 10:25:36 GMT

Claims that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been captured and removed from the country by U.S. forces follow years of criminal charges and public arrest rewards issued by the United States go…

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]]><![CDATA[Don’t Blame Arabs. Blame Your Liberal Democracy]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/dont-blame-arabs-blame-your-liberalhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/dont-blame-arabs-blame-your-liberalSat, 20 Dec 2025 21:33:10 GMT

After the Bondi attack, many asked what happened to the Australia they grew up in. The answer is not immigration, ethnicity, or sudden cultural rupture. It is the long, polite hollowing-out of nation…

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]]><![CDATA[🧨 How Western Elites Used Hitler to Build a Post-War System Designed to Control You]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/how-western-elites-used-hitler-tohttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/how-western-elites-used-hitler-toFri, 12 Dec 2025 00:06:37 GMThttps://x.com/modern_enquirer/status/1999266081480015944

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]]><![CDATA[The First Official Crack in the Vaccine Story]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-first-official-crack-in-the-vaccinehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-first-official-crack-in-the-vaccineMon, 01 Dec 2025 22:39:21 GMT

By Nick Holt
The Modern Enquirer

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]]><![CDATA[The West Is Being Distracted by Immigration as Digital ID Becomes the Architecture of Control]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-west-is-being-distracted-by-immigrationhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-west-is-being-distracted-by-immigrationMon, 01 Dec 2025 07:56:57 GMT

By Nick Holt

Western politics is now organised around one issue: immigration. It dominates elections in Europe, shapes every political argument in Britain, drives the most volatile cultural debates in…

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]]><![CDATA[Australia Is Psychologically Primed for Policed Speech]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/australia-is-psychologically-primedhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/australia-is-psychologically-primedSun, 30 Nov 2025 22:37:57 GMT

By Nick Holt
The Modern Enquirer

Britain arrests more than twelve thousand people a year for online speech. One every hour. Thirty a day. A nation that once ruled a quarter of the world now dispatches …

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]]><![CDATA[The West’s Problem Isn’t Immigration. It’s Amnesia.]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-wests-problem-isnt-immigrationhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/the-wests-problem-isnt-immigrationSun, 30 Nov 2025 00:21:51 GMT

By Nick Holt

Immigration is not the cause of a civilisation’s decline—it’s the diagnosis. No civilisation collapses because strangers arrive; they merely arrive at the moment the rot becomes impossibl…

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]]><![CDATA[Australians remain traumatised because their government won’t admit what it did during Covid]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/australians-remain-traumatised-becausehttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/australians-remain-traumatised-becauseFri, 31 Oct 2025 00:19:04 GMT

By Nick Holt

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]]><![CDATA[What Nietzsche Meant by “God Is Dead”]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/what-nietzsche-meant-by-god-is-deadhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/what-nietzsche-meant-by-god-is-deadTue, 28 Oct 2025 21:34:23 GMT

By Nick Holt – The Modern Enquirer

When Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that “God is dead,” he wasn’t celebrating . He was recording a cultural obituary. The phrase—perhaps the most misunderstood in modern …

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]]><![CDATA[Understanding Plato’s Allegory of the Cave – What It Is and What It Isn’t]]>https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/understanding-platos-allegory-ofhttps://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/understanding-platos-allegory-ofMon, 20 Oct 2025 01:31:19 GMT

By Nicholas Holt – The Modern Enquirer

Few philosophical images capture the human condition as vividly as Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Yet it is also among the most misunderstood. In today’s discours…

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