Lies and the death of democracy
Words matter, concepts matter. Without a shared understanding of language we’d live in a world of chaos. Truth, in other…
The climate conundrum
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
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
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
Technology is disruptive. It destroys and creates. It also defines us as human beings. No technology, though, even television, has…
Good Trump, bad Trump
The great Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek said ‘the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little…
Peterson’s sin
Last week I wanted to move to a hut in the wilderness, as far away from people as possible. The…
Thinking versus doing
The Australian National University’s rejection of the Ramsay Centre’s Western Civilisation degree has ignited a debate about university education in…
Donald Trump’s honest politics
We are now a year and five months into the Trump presidency and the commentariat are still at a loss…
The monstrous evil of Nazi/Israeli moral equivalence
Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto. The Israelis are Nazis. Palestinians are the victims of genocide. These are claims that are…
Want to fix big government? Ban public sector workers from voting
The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…
Stephen Hawking and the limits of knowledge
Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist who died last week, is now set to have his ashes interred alongside those…
Stuck down a one-way street
Australia is not a racist country. Compared with much of the world, Australia is a paragon of virtue when it…
Recycling is rubbish
Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course…
Liberty and America’s gun culture
Freedom is not an unalloyed good. It allows people both to flourish and to make mistakes. Freedom, then, can never…
The Green-left’s war against Jim Molan
The Greens are a party without principle or common sense. They’ve proved their lack of seriousness by their attack this…
The feminist two-step
Feminism is in crisis. It’s in a crisis of its own making because it’s been an echo chamber for so…
Jordan Peterson proves truth will out
Last week something insignificant occurred that may in future assume greater importance. Just like the defenestration of Prague, which started the Thirty…
One year of Trump; one year of winning
Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character…
In defence of Israel
Gough Whitlam coined a memorable political phrase when he said, “only the impotent are pure”. It’s memorable because it’s so…
