The COVID crisis gave rise to government policies that seek to control lives in the name of saving lives, threatening society with a cure that is far worse than the disease. When police monitor online church services lest pastors or congregants talk of worship together and in person, Hobbes would have recognised that a risen Leviathan is tolerating no disobedience

The West's customs and culture have all been shaped by the Judeo-Christian worldview, unlike Islam which urges its male adherents to follow Mohammed's personal example. Where women are concerned the Prophet left what amounts to a handbook detailing how they should be treated, subjugated and punished. It is called the Koran and none of its edicts is pleasant

Quadrant's Peter O'Brien exposed the fauxborigine fabulist in 'Bitter Harvest' and so did the Dark Emu Exposed website, but being conservative they were shunned by the Bruce Pascoe groupies. Now, via Sutton and Walshe, the book has been torn apart from the left. So when does it get booted out of our schools?

Common Grace is a 'progressive' Christian organisation that has taken up the fight for a treaty with Australia's Aborigines. How this might be achieved, the legality of such a pact and what it might promise are issues never explained nor, apparently, examined in anything but the fuzziest focus. Could it be that advocates prefer not to notice the devil in the details?

You needn't be a professional art critic to appreciate the skill and the power Johannes Leak poured into his entry, a portrait of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Indeed, as this year's competition demonstrates perhaps more than any previous year, being a luvvie arbiter of merit obliges the specific exclusion of what is beautiful, good and worthwhile

To claim the abuse of women and children in Aboriginal communities has been 'learnt' from white society, a popular meme just lately, falsely suggests violence was unknown before the First Fleet. If things are to get better, the first step must be to replace convenient myths with facts. Then, finally, we might get somewhere

'Brave New World' imagined a society where 'everyone belongs to everyone else', emotions are constrained by drugs and sex fills the void left by the banishment of love. Today, the mores of Western civilisation have gone far beyond what Huxley could ever have imagined

Perpetuating the myth that Aboriginal people are at greater risk in jail than non-Aboriginals puts even more lives in greater danger, as indigenous women often refrain from reporting violent menfolk for fear they will be mistreated and die in custody. Trading truth for a fashionable lie has its consequences

Perhaps we need a new Isaiah, someone who can confront those who not only think bitter is sweet and sin a virtue but demand everyone else revel in the same delusions. There are some though, a few like Rod Dreher, who grasp how cultures decline when they fail to see there can be no light in darkness