It is past time to bluntly confront leftist thought at every opportunity. Did being polite save Brett Kavanaugh from slanders that will adhere for the rest of his days? Reserve and good manners are the conservative way, but they are of no use when the enemy's motto is 'by any means necessary'

Until the Constitution is changed or  the High Court changes its collective mind, all federal parliamentary candidates need to think carefully about Section 44  -- and that includes independent Wentworth contender Kerryn Phelps

Listen to the arts community's functionaries as they assail the Left's ever-changing roster of anointed enemies and you just might catch echoes of Comrade Stalin's lectures to the Bolsheviks. Like him, as Shostakovich would have recognised, our cultural Marxists pursue not art but power

There are better ways for South Africa to implement land reform than expropriation without compensation. Vast swathes are owned by government and much of this, rather than properties seized by parliamentary decree, could easily be transferred to deserving families and communities

At this point, we don’t know how the SCOTUS nominee's saga will turn out. And it is precisely because we don’t, and can’t, that the pro forma, gender wars projections of misandrist opinionistas tell us much more about them than they realise, or, lets face it, than they care

Not so long ago, Nike was the company the left loved to hate, with its stupendous profits wrung, as activists asserted, from the sweat of the Third World's poor. Now, suddenly, it's the progressives' toast. All it took was the embrace of a black athlete who won't stand for the US national anthem

Youth conveys certain privileges, not least the right to be extraordinarily silly and have no one think ill of you. Alas, in our politically correct land, where asininity draws an ardent following, even a nine-year-old's nonsense about the National Anthem attracts advocates old enough to know better

Sins of political commission (alienating the base, for starters) and omission (standing for nothing other than ruinous energy prices) sealed the former PM's political fate. But there was an element of bad luck as well. Rather than Sydney, he should have been born in Manhattan, island of the main-chancers

Tell me I'm never happy, accuse me of delight at hearing the door slam behind Malcolm Turnbull only to whine about what, in my estimation, is the lacklustre Cabinet assembled by his successor. And call me a dreamer as well, because this is the all-star front bench that occupies my reveries

On the Left, as Brett Kavanaugh's attackers demonstrate, a slur becomes gospel if it furthers a political aim, in this instance keeping a conservative from the US Supreme Court's former 'swing' seat. Assertion is enough, coherent evidence be damned -- and if the rule of law suffers, so be it

To reflect the world as it is, let's put the ratio of women who pursue careers with the uninterrupted vigour that mostly characterises men at, say, four to one. To insist, therefore, on equal representation at each level of management amounts to a demand that women be not equal but privileged

Aesop would no doubt have endorsed compulsory super in this Age of Entitlement which sees so many lead spendthrift lives on the assumption that others will take care of them later. His is the moral position, whereas mine somewhat reluctantly recognises the economic case for forced contributions

The meltdown of 2008 was misdiagnosed, mostly by those with an ideological barrow to push. Thus have we been treated to sermons about greed, derivatives and, of course, the sins of capitalism itself. Wrong, dead wrong. To a large extent it was the product of government interference

Western societies no longer exhibit true virtue, having traded the genuine article for the posturing which draws applause on Twitter.  They no longer yearn for excellence.  They do not seek truth. What we have witnessed is a wholesale collapse in the decency of our institutions

Victims of crime live with the consequences of those attacks long after perpetrators have done their time and been released, more often than not to re-offend. Taxpayers also suffer, as the public purse must cover the steep cost of incarceration. Why not oblige offenders to make whole all those they harm?

The US Senate finally confirms Brett Kavanaugh, who has endured months of character assassination driven by a vile campaign of lies and distortions. Let his ordeal be a lesson to all who hope for even a mere modicum of decency from the modern Left: they don't have a shred of it

Only a lengthy and voluminously footnoted book could paint the full picture the judge's ordeal on his way to the US Supreme Court. Nevertheless, what Roger Kimball, John Hinderaker and others have had to say sheds a grimly unflattering light on the tactics and motivations of his accusers

There are words Quadrant Online generally eschews and this essay is about just such a term, recently favoured by the ABC. The minister's complaint was sneeringly dismissed with the advice that he should get a sense of humour. Misogyny equals mirth, apparently, when broadcast by the unaccountable

The hospital dosed me with a potent painkiller after a recent operation and suddenly the TV became a source of endless fascination, alive with engrossing images. This was very odd indeed, as it wasn't turned on at the time. There was no refuge from hallucinations, not even with eyes tight shut

Once upon a time, 'slut' conveyed opprobrium but is now held to reflect poorly on those who use the word to denigrate women engaging in what modern mores assert is perfectly acceptable behaviour. So why is 'slut-shaming' presented as an insult?  The concept is irredeemably incoherent