The 228th Bastille Day has just been celebrated in France – at least by some. Not everyone is crazy about the storming of the Bastille…
It is time we wake from our slumber: It is interesting how some individuals make a radical about-face as they become aware of inconvenient truths…
Here are eleven books by four authors you should be aware of: There is never a shortage of good books out there, nor of good…
The American Revolution could not be more different from the French Revolution: ‘Revolution is revolution,’ some people might think. But in reality, while many can…
Statism and its war on God: This is a follow-up piece to an earlier article I wrote on political religion. In that essay I spoke…
Statist religion and its war on Christianity: Because God exists, and because we are all made in his image, that means all people are inescapably…
One’s worldview determines how we approach things like the corona crisis: Two nights ago on television there was a replay of the 1996 film Independence…
More evidence that too many Christians think and act like pagans: Christians are in the world to have an impact and an influence on non-Christians.…
Broadside Books, 2019. America and the West did not come out of nowhere. They have a past – a past steeped in various important ideas.…
With the cause of the blaze that took down much of Notre Dame still uncertain (was it an accident, or arson, or terrorism?), many commentators…
Today we are heavily infected with the three plagues of political correctness, moral relativism, and a war on truth. All three of these big ticket…
Eight hundred years ago the Great Charter was written, and we still are enjoying the benefits of it today. Simply put, this hugely significant document…
While Woolworths in Australia and other dhimmi businesses (such as Coke in America) are happy to celebrate Ramadan, we need to get our feet back…
OK, perhaps we should now consider this to be an irregular series, with a title needed something like: “Bill’s European Travelogue and Worldview School”. It…
That free speech is a vital component of Western democracies goes without saying. That it is being slowly but effectively whittled away is also a…
Since I first wrote on this topic two days ago, a lot more light on what exactly has taken place has been shed, and a…
Modern, universal, secular education is largely taken for granted today in the West. But it has not always been in existence. Up until relatively recently…
A core feature of the Enlightenment project was the twin concepts of optimism and progress. Modernism’s infatuation with science led to the idea that human…
When the great earthquake of 1755 rocked Lisbon, it raised all sorts of questions about God and faith. The quake, along with a devastating tsunami…
OK, now that I have shamelessly pinched the title of Edmund Burke’s famous 1790 book, let me continue. Bastille Day, the French national holiday, was…