The Latest From Mervyn Bendle
The Australian Law Reform Commission wants legislation that will dictate what people may believe and how they express those beliefs through faith-based institutions, especially schools and places of worship. Count on a precedent-setting show trial, and rest assured it will be Christianity in the dock, never Islam
May 16 2024
13 mins
While this coterie of self-satisfied administrators on their million-dollar salaries strut and preen and insist they strictly observe the principles of free speech and have zero tolerance for racist abuse and harassment, their effective inaction in the face of unprecedented anti-Semitism on their campuses clearly states the opposite
May 07 2024
9 mins
The convergence of militant Islamism with various neo-Marxist organizations began amid the social, cultural and political turmoil of the Sixties, a period that saw fellow travelers and useful idiots demanding, as did the Austrian Corporal, the destruction of liberal democracy. His heirs are doing their best
Apr 30 2024
16 mins
Preface: Incredible as it may seem, it is now no […]
Apr 29 2024
31 mins
Oh, the irony! The same Leftists who advocate 'punching Nazis' and proclaim themselves sworn foes of fascism have fervently embraced the exterminationist position in regard to Israel. Somewhere in Hell, Hitler and his pet Muslim, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, are cheering their latter day disciples
Apr 26 2024
16 mins
Anzac Day now stands alone on the calendar as a symbolic bastion of national identity, an identity the Left wants expunged not only to create further room for its ever-growing collection of ersatz days of pride and mourning, but also to create a cultural tabula rasa that can be re-engineered according to ideology and fashion
Apr 24 2024
19 mins
Simone de Beauvoir hovered on the edge of greatness as a young philosopher capable of penetrating the ultimate questions of existence. But then she shrank from the challenge, sinking instead into a preoccupation with the melodramatic and often sordid concerns of herself, lovers, friends and peers
Feb 03 2024
30 mins
Churchill asked his guest what he felt was the most important thing he had ever written. 'White Christmas,' was the reply. Churchill, perplexed, gave up and turned to someone else. It was only later that he was told that through a mix-up it was the composer Irving Berlin who had been invited to enjoy lunch and the wartime Prime Minister's company
Nov 28 2023
27 mins
Was there truly 'no exit' from humanity’s existential predicament, as Sartre posits in Huis-Close? Was the meaning of life a hellish nihilism? Such questions confronted intellectuals amidst the crisis of the Cold War that defined both the era of Existentialism. the decline of a front-rank philosopher to the status of a hired-gun propagandist for the communist bloc
Nov 05 2023
26 mins