Reflections
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The Left no longer demands that industries be nationalised -- indeed, they're as likely as anybody to be building their portfolios. Meanwhile, many on the Right seek to distance themselves from any whiff of old-fashioned social conservatism. All this is bad news for traditional conservatives, alone with their values in modern culture's war zone
May 29, 2022
4 mins
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The view that animals, all animals, have as much right to life as humans not only lacks discernment and common sense but is actually pernicious, for it blunts our perception of the seriousness of some terrible abuses visited upon humans. The Greens will never agree on that point, though there is common ground in a shared belief that mankind has responsibilities towards the natural world
February 27, 2022
6 mins
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It is a sad day when sportsmen are required to lead blameless lives and sporting administrators set themselves up as moral arbiters to judge and punish those who have strayed. Let us set Cricket Australia's Mr Richard Freudenstein an example by declining to ask, as Christ once did, if a man so quick to judge is himself free of transgressions' private stains
November 28, 2021
2 mins
The latest
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Patients being consigned to eternity without their consent. The elderly and frail feeling themselves under pressure to end the burden on their kin. Those are but two reasons of many why assisted suicide, always presented by advocates as a humane response to age and illness, is an afront to morality, ethics and the gift of life itself
October 17, 2021
7 mins
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What Marxism and scientism offer and permit is a drab, soulless and uninspiring view of man’s nature and the world in which we live. The practical reason for that narrow and enforced perspective was summarised in just a few short words by William Blake: “He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God". The commissars of culture can never alllow that to happen
October 14, 2021
5 mins
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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
August 29, 2021
6 mins
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As NSW's lockdown extends it grip and the odds on Victoria imposing yet another hobbling of normal life and movement grow shorter by the hour, we must remain aware that our neighbours are not just bags of cells in need protecting. We are morally obliged not to push from mind their economic and mental health
July 14, 2021
4 mins
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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
April 11, 2021
10 mins
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Talking about demons and angels outside church is scarcely respectable at all. But on the other side of a world in darkness there is light and an enchanted world of saints and heroes, and countless acts of love. Humanity has been living with its demons and its angels for a very long time
February 28, 2021
10 mins
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It was a university lecturer who told me that 'Christian fundamentalism is the greatest challenge for teachers to overcome'. Nietzsche would have approved, yet as universities follow his instruction to love the world and rise above God and morality, they also emulate his decline into mindlessness
October 18, 2020
14 mins
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Probus, a very careful Roman writer, declared the golden youth's death a murder and with good reason. No body, absent witnesses, reports of lacerations and torn garments -- no coroner would approve such a finding, not with human sacrifice a pointedly unexplored possibility
October 10, 2020
13 mins
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Saint Barbara might be simply a woman martyred for believing in Christ, like others in Baalbek whom we do not know and never will. Only the extraordinary story has kept her alive, offering a glimpse into the mysteries of existence, suffering and hope
August 9, 2020
11 mins