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Mervyn F. Bendle

Mervyn F. Bendle

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  • The History Wars and the Holocaust

    Central to the new strategy of Holocaust denial are foreign historians and intellectuals eager to provide examples of 'genocide' their own countries have allegedly committed. Does it come as a surprise that Australia's professorial peddlers of massacre myths and legends were on the first plane, metaphorically speaking, for a revisionist conference in Berlin

    Aug 01 2024

    37 mins

  • God, Lebenswelten and Conservatism

    This article has its genesis in a letter by Dr […]

    Jun 30 2020

    25 mins

  • The Quest for Jesus

    Originating in the separation of the Christ of Faith from the Jesus of History, the varied and often conflicting efforts to both explain, position and claim Him have devolved into iconoclasm and uncertainty. On Easter Sunday, Mervyn Bendle's 2013 essay is well worth reprising

    Apr 12 2020

    25 mins

  • The Conservative Odyssey of Roger Scruton

    It was Paris, May 1968, when Roger Scruton saw into […]

    Feb 27 2020

    28 mins

  • Australia’s Opportunity for a New Frontier

    If Australia's future is ever to match the blessing of its resources and potential of its people, the Green-Left mindset that has burdened the nation since the 1980s must be replaced by the self-confidence and nation-building activism that sustained us for nearly two centuries

    Dec 11 2019

    18 mins

  • After the Wall, Three Decades of Cultural Despair

    The great lesson of the 20th Century is that the constructive strands of the Western tradition, which empowered its ascendancy for over half a millennium, may now be too enfeebled to withstand the assault of moral nihilism, intellectual sloth, and self-righteous cultural philistinism. Overall, a grim outlook.

    Nov 11 2019

    16 mins

  • Peter Coleman: The Tenacity of a Liberal Intellectual

    'The Last Intellectuals: Essays on Writers & Politics' remains an outstanding book that illuminates when Coleman and others like him stepped forward to hold the line before one of the most sinister threats in the history of the world. A battle far from over, it was one he never shirked from fighting

    Apr 02 2019

    15 mins

  • The Anzacs’ Most Determined Foes

    Activists and ideologues in the media, academia, even the nation's Parliament, have worked tireless to excavate an ideological vacuum at the core of both the Anzac legend and Australians' conception of themselves as heirs to a fair, decent, often heroic past. In a powerful speech at the most recent Quadrant dinner to launch his new book, 'Anzac & Its Enemies', Mervyn Bendle called those detractors to account

    Apr 26 2015

    32 mins

  • The Twisted Myth of the Crusades

    Nothing better illustrates the triumph of propaganda over fact than the confected narrative, beloved of Islamists and leftists, which asserts the battles of 900 years ago were imperialist assaults on peaceful and blameless Muslims. They were nothing of the kind

    Mar 26 2015

    13 mins