The Latest From Peter Smith
The media's talking heads credit Kamala Harris with winning her debate with Trump. Well, yes, they would say that
Sep 15 2024
8 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
By referring to eye-witness accounts, I happen to believe that I am on firm ground. It is impossible to believe that the early Christian martyrs went to their deaths in service of unsubstantiated hearsay.
Sep 01 2024
4 mins
Some people might be content with the state of Australia in the year of our Lord 2024. I have one or two, or five or six, concerns. How to put one’s finger on it without trying to list every modern-day ill?
Aug 26 2024
5 mins
Bastiat was born before his time. He couldn’t have imagined how much worse things could get. Yet to come was Keynesianism and, coming up behind, the wellspring of unseen economic carnage and limitless waste, so-called climate change.
Aug 25 2024
7 mins
Where things have gone wrong is that the necessary, and in my view God-ordained, search for material causes of everything -- of which all honest scientists and even professional atheist Richard Dawkins are in honourable pursuit -- has been mostly framed in a way which excludes the transcendental
Aug 11 2024
7 mins
It is plain silly to be influenced by individual monthly and quarterly inflation numbers. There is too much noise fuzzing-up the the signal for the latest inflation numbers to be of any use. A far better perspective is gained by looking at the annual growth of monetary aggregates. If they are coming down, scotch all thought of hiking rates
Aug 04 2024
3 mins
Christianity does not inculcate fanaticism among its followers nor, to the point, a fearful and fatalistic apathy. Instead of inshallah. Free will is fundamental to Christianity. Predestination, which follows from God’s sovereignty over all things, must be retrofitted around God-given free will, never the other way around
Jul 27 2024
5 mins
It is fair enough for Trump to believe, as he told the GOP convention, that he was spared the sniper’s bullet to do great things for America and take evict demonic Democrats. Okay, if 'demonic' is too hard for you to swallow, let us agree their actions are not on the side of the angels
Jul 21 2024
5 mins