Oprah Winfrey is a picture of the American Dream. Raised in a rural area and from a poor family, Oprah has worked hard and ridden a wave of popularity to acquire a net worth of over $2.5 billion. She is adored by Americans of every ...read more
Activists are wasting their time tearing down old statues. Abuse is happening here and now. Over the last month, global protests have been drawing attention to the unjust treatment of minority communities. As an organisation and as a slogan Black Lives Matter has captured the ...read more
2020 has been quite a year. If COVID-19 and the George Floyd riots weren’t enough to get your attention, there are now statues being torn down by rioting mobs across the Western world. The first memorials to be targeted were those depicting advocates of slavery ...read more
The Australian journalist Greg Sheridan has quipped that these days, “the academic fashion is to attack Western civilisation, not study it.” With historic statues being trashed and toppled around the western world, and accusations of systemic racism being levelled against the fairest societies that history ...read more
In celebration of one of America’s most important holidays, Independence Day, President Trump gave a presidency-defining speech in front of Mount Rushmore this weekend. It was an impassioned defence of America, the nation’s heroes, and its legacy. Both Trump’s speech and the media’s angry reaction ...read more
What do Germaine Greer and J. K. Rowling have in common? Until recently, an obvious answer was that they are strident feminists. But more recently, these two have another claim to fame: they’ve been ‘cancelled’ by mainstream culture for not being radical enough. In a ...read more
Aussies are a laid-back bunch. That’s partly why we don’t like to talk religion or politics in polite company. When these topics come up at a dinner party, our impulse is to keep it light-hearted, or make a point of cutting down the tall poppies, ...read more
The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of ...read more
J.K. Rowling, author of the immensely popular children’s book series Harry Potter, has been in the firing line in recent years for her commonsense views on transgenderism and biological sex. Last week she faced another Twitter storm when she took a stand for sanity. Responding ...read more
The ideas that shape our culture eventually find their way into the church. Francis Schaeffer traced this pattern over many centuries, observing that what begins in the philosophy departments of Western universities spreads first to art, then music, then the general culture. Finally, these fashions ...read more