The 228th Bastille Day has just been celebrated in France – at least by some. Not everyone is crazy about the storming of the Bastille…
The recent presidential election in France may well be cause for guarded optimism. Certainly the election of Sarkozy is greatly preferred to that of Royal.…
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…
The formula is now down pat and fully predictable: another terror attack; usually by an Islamic refugee; Western leaders strenuously deny it is terror- or…
I just penned a piece on the tumultuous counterculture, 50 years on. I mentioned that a major part of this social upheaval was the sexual…
Reading like a Who’s Who of Hollywood actresses, the number of women who have come forward and claimed that they were raped or sexually assaulted…
LifeSite, 2015. In 300 well-documented pages, Gabriele Kuby makes it crystal clear that the sexual revolution has been every bit as wide-ranging and destructive as…
We have got to the point in so much of the West where it actually seems important to start talking about the possibility or even…
The West over the centuries has gone through various phases which in broad-brush fashion can be characterised as follows: from pagan to Christian to post-Christian…
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…
On the horrific new law in France: The first and greatest human right is the right to life. Without that right, none of the other…
Global governance is a threat that must be resisted: Many of the left attack transnational bodies such as global corporations and the like. The very…
This really helps to explain today’s woke totalitarians: One of the most important conservative and Christian thinkers of the past century would have to be…
Thoughts on the passing of historian Paul Johnson: The noted English historian Paul Johnson has passed away a few days ago, aged 94. Already various…
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…
A culture based only on feelings and sensations is a doomed culture: Civilisations used to be based in good measure on reason and mental and…
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…
We must not forget the murderous legacy of Communism, including Chinese Communism: Those aware of recent history and those who have not allowed ideological blinders…
Free speech and its limits: There are some memes making the rounds on the social media having to do with free speech, book banning, and…