Bill Muehlenberg

Woke ideology and totalitarianism

12 February 2024 3:00 am

We all know by now that society’s Adventures in Wokeland are never-ending. Thankfully, these sagas have become so annoying that…

The Voice, colonialism, and historical revisionism

30 September 2023 12:35 pm

There is no question that the hordes of Woke lefties consider Australian Senator Jacinta Price to be just another ‘Uncle…

There are nincompoops among us

16 May 2023 6:00 am

Don’t you love the word ‘nincompoop’? It dates back to at least the 16th Century, but it has a really…

Theologian Thunberg and the pseudo-religion

26 March 2023 4:00 am

Imagine that: it seems that Greta Thunberg is now a top theologian…? Yes, I realise that honorary degrees are usually…

We got Bernie, now let’s get Moira

3 March 2023 4:30 am

What do you get if you combine Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, and Genghis Khan? Why, a conservative Christian…

Climate lockdowns: a never-ending story of misery and control

10 January 2023 10:00 am

Here is a harsh truth we must be cognisant of: the same power-hungry control freaks who wanted to lock down…

Victoria and China: a tragic tale of two tyrannies

1 December 2022 11:41 am

The contrast could not be greater: freedom is willingly being thrown away in Victoria and the West while being passionately…

Davos deities and the Schwabian dystopia

25 November 2022 4:00 am

Several years ago The Spectator Australia Editor and Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean said that it’s ‘a hardcore leftist eco-horror show replete with…

Let’s talk Covid apologies ... and reparations

2 November 2022 10:00 am

If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…

The Left’s addiction to destruction

17 October 2022 12:00 pm

It was the late English philosopher Roger Scruton who once wrote: ‘Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created……

Super-spreading Christophobia

12 October 2022 7:00 am

Well, that did not take long. As we all know, a brand new CEO was forced out in record-breaking time.…

Where the jackboot never fades

28 August 2022 6:00 am

George Orwell once wrote: ‘All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely…

Society is going to the dogs ... and cats

25 August 2022 12:00 pm

The sexual revolution has brought us to ... this ... a brave new world?

Dutch tolerance vs. the Great Reset

16 July 2022 11:00 am

The Dutch are a tolerant people, and they have a long-standing reputation for that. I lived in the Netherlands for…

Woke churches erased women

13 July 2022 12:00 pm

It was the African American social commentator Candace Owens who once quipped: ‘Telling children they can pick their gender is…

Naomi is not crying wolf

3 June 2022 3:00 pm

Major issues of the day tend to fall along political and ideological lines. But not always. Some matters are so…

Bernie Finn: how the mighty have fallen

26 May 2022 7:00 am

Two giants have fallen. One has been falling for quite some time and it looks like it will be broken…

Whither the real conservatives on May 21?

19 April 2022 9:00 am

Taking to the skies seems rather popular on May 21. On that day in 1927, the American aviator Charles Lindbergh…

Judge Jackson and the ‘Cult of the Woke’

28 March 2022 4:00 am

The Great Awokening has reached every nook and cranny of our culture. And the impact of this disease is now…

On the Canadian disease of ‘liberalism’ and religious complicity

20 February 2022 7:00 am

The American satirist and libertarian commentator P. J. O’Rourke, who passed away this week, once said this: ‘At the core…

Health fascism has become a Hollywood dystopian sci-fi

18 January 2022 12:00 pm

Some of you might recall the 2013 film Elysium starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. It is about a ravaged…

I thought the left supported freedom

14 November 2021 4:09 pm

Not too long ago the left was all about freedom, individual choice, resistance to authority and the State, and full-on…

They don’t have safe spaces in North Korea

1 July 2021 5:15 pm

If you still have a copy of the important 1976 volume by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A Warning to the West, it will be worth…

The looming medical apartheid

12 June 2021 3:01 pm

As is well known, the Afrikaans word apartheid means “apartness”. In South Africa, this involved keeping blacks and whites apart. We have moved on from…

The woke comes preassembled at IKEA

17 May 2021 7:23 pm

For those of us who are still sane, we fully expect the lunar left to doggedly push ever more insanity…