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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Virtue of Courage
Professor Simon Haines is stepping down this year from his position as the founding CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. This is an edited version of his welcoming speech to the Australian Catholic University’s new scholars for 2024
IT’S ALWAYS wonderful to greet new undergraduate scholars, but this year for the first time the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation also has twelve post-graduate scholars, taking the new Master of Liberal Arts degree in Western civilisation, the first ever in Australia. It’s a real breakthrough moment, another exciting first for Ramsay, with potentially huge impact on mid-career professionals. I do hope that many scholars taking the undergraduate degree will go on to the Masters of Teaching that Australian Catholic University has linked to this degree—that double qualification will make you the best teachers in the system.
The words scholar, scholarship and school come from the ancient Greek word schole, which meant leisure or…
We are in the middle of an unprecedented civilisational experiment, and to restore any kind of vigour and optimism to Western civilisation, vigour and optimism must be restored to the family.
Aug 29 2024
23 mins
Apparently, what respectable Australian researchers do is assume that there is a link between suspensions and incarceration because American researchers claim to have found one.
Aug 29 2024
14 mins
Altogether, auteur theory sounds fascinating and, no doubt, develops excellent skills of analysis for students of film, as they dissect and discuss this or that auteur director’s body of work. But what is it doing in an English course, in high school, in Year 10?
Aug 29 2024
14 mins
