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Are we headed toward the death of reason?
In one important way, the death of Pope Benedict last week was the death of reason in an increasingly secular…
My time with Cardinal Ratzinger
I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the mid-nineties. He was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and midway through his…
Covid 2023: a crisis of trust
The past couple of months have seen some quite startling Covid studies published in reputable medical journals that should be…
Pope Benedict XVI: the first victim of cancel culture
In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI was invited by one of Italy’s (if not the world’s) leading universities, La Sapienza…
Twitter’s free speech threatens radical trans activism
I sat down to write this article about how Elon was being held captive in some areas in his expressed…
The power of many
It was 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his…
That’s not cricket! The Don knew his economics
It is increasingly common for professional sportsmen and women to express political opinions, particularly in the age of Twitter. Most…
Adams aims wrong’un at the Don and Kamahl
The recent disclosure that Sir Donald George Bradman warmly welcomed Labor’s defeat in the 1975 federal election must have come…
Monarchist League issues ultimatum on the Voice
The federal government under Anthony Albanese, regardless of what it admits and what the media reports, is moving fast to…
In search of common sense
I am sure that, like me, you have not only used the term ‘common sense’ yourselves, but have heard many…
Is Queensland’s Minister for Women selling out women and girls?
Under Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Women, and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman’s new bill, a…
Will history judge Benedict XVI more kindly than his contemporaries?
This weekend I have been touring TV studios trying to set the late Pope Benedict’s life and work in perspective.…
Australia’s New Year resolutions
As I consider the future and look forward to the year 2023, I have resolved to make the following solemn…
Pope Benedict XVI: towering intellect and deep piety
Sydney’s Cardinal Anthony Fisher is right to praise the late Pope Benedict XVI as ‘a man of towering intellect and…
Building babies in a brave new world
The term ‘dystopian’ gets thrown around a lot these days, but it’s fair to say that the idea of babies…
Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK
I admire Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Miranda Devine, but they’ve all done a disservice recently in fuelling foolish…
You don’t decide your pronouns – we do
How often do you get emails from someone who signs off with their pronouns? How often are you confronted in…
The crimes of eco-fascism
Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left. Since becoming custodians of…
No time for panic
Cristina Talacko is the CEO of Coalition for Conservation, an environmental charity working with centre-right politicians on energy and climate…
Farewell 2022: the year of vindication
2022 has been a big year for conspiracy theorists – mainly because most of what they said is in the…
Del Noce, modernity, and the death of the Enlightenment
In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…
Happy Energophobia!
It is the New Year season, so I thought we should celebrate around something that will be common to all…
Batteries not included
Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs
Pull it together, Australia!
Australia is a great nation and a country to be proud of. We have faced challenging times, year after year,…
The slippery slope to socialism
I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…
