Declan Mansfield

Morality flips

27 January 2024 9:00 am

Our moral universe is upside-down

By the time you read this I may have been sacked…

30 September 2023 9:00 am

Free speech is dead in Australia

Sex and gender – it’s in the genes

2 September 2023 9:00 am

Why are the majority of rapists male?

Sinéad, Barbie and the patriarchy

12 August 2023 9:00 am

Nothing compares to men

Aussie life

10 June 2023 9:00 am

Recently, a demonstration was held outside Perth Library, which is noteworthy because libraries are one of the few spaces that…

The Voice of unreason

22 April 2023 9:00 am

The triumph of modern irrationalism

Pesutto has doomed the Victorian Liberal Party

21 March 2023 10:56 am

The Liberal Party is doomed. It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the only way to understand the decision by John Pesutto,…

The fanatical foot soldiers of feminism

16 March 2023 4:00 am

So, another International Women’s Day has come and gone, and the usual plethora of dubious statistics, socialist ideology, and tendentious…

Queer theory

25 February 2023 9:00 am

Transgressing the boundaries of sex education

Trump v. The Establishment

26 November 2022 9:00 am

Cynicism beyond belief

Death by a thousand cuts

8 October 2022 9:00 am

How Trump wuz robbed

Being Penny Wong

21 May 2022 9:00 am

Under Labor, DFAT gets even dafter

Toxic femininity

27 March 2021 9:00 am

Double standards that ignore biological truths

BLM and the N word

22 August 2020 9:00 am

Disturbing echoes of the Weimar republic can clearly be seen in the Black Lives Matter movement

The long adolescence of Clementine Ford

10 June 2020 1:07 pm

I hate mobs so I feel guilty criticising Clementine Ford. It’s hard, though, to feel sympathy for her. She’s a…

Bleach? The MSM has been drunk on its Kool-Aid since Donald Trump became president

29 April 2020 6:11 pm

Repressive regimes don’t tell the truth, and, if they do, it’s because the truth works to their advantage. Truth, for…

Women’s world

18 April 2020 9:00 am

One of life’s perennial questions is what would the world look like if it was ruled by women. It’s an…

Celebrity climate sting

7 September 2019 9:00 am

I’m a mediocre guitar player. I’ve also said 12 lines in a one-act play. Neither of these activities gave me…

Lies and the death of democracy

20 July 2019 9:00 am

Words matter, concepts matter. Without a shared understanding of language we’d live in a world of chaos. Truth, in other…

The climate conundrum

1 June 2019 9:00 am

All political philosophies are rational according to their own logic. Even reprehensible and morally repugnant ideologies can appear logical if…

Lies, groceries and feminist statistics

9 March 2019 9:00 am

Successful politics is impossible without lies. Politicians know being truthful doesn’t work. Voters, for all their claims about wanting honest…

Sisters aren’t doing it for themselves

17 November 2018 9:00 am

Every era has its noble lies – the ideas that underpin a civilisation. The noble lie of contemporary culture is…

The Facebook page of Dorian Gray

20 October 2018 9:00 am

Technology is disruptive. It destroys and creates. It also defines us as human beings. No technology, though, even television, has…

Good Trump, bad Trump

25 August 2018 9:00 am

The great Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek said ‘the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little…

Peterson’s sin

28 July 2018 9:00 am

Last week I wanted to move to a hut in the wilderness, as far away from people as possible. The…