While certain religions are growing in some parts of the world, they are in decline in other parts. But the decline of one religion is…
Welcome to the future. If you want to know where Australia is heading, just look at countries that are a few steps ahead. Consider Holland…
It is hard to know what is really going on in Iraq. Much of the media gives us a fairly slanted view, highlighting the carnage…
The debate about climate change is far from over. The issues are varied and complex, and there is no clear scientific unanimity on the subject.…
Without doubt abortion is a hugely divisive issue. But why is that? People disagree about the best flavour of ice cream, but it is not…
Much has been made of a recent report in the Lancet which sought to estimate the number of civilian casualties due to the war in…
Freedom of speech has never been absolute. Crying ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, we are rightly told, is just not on. So there is often…
Theodore Dalrymple is an important thinker and writer who has just released an important new book. The book is about the growing problem of drug…
It is always problematic when you have a megalomaniac who is nasty, belligerent, and a bully. It’s even worse if the same person has nuclear…
As the Federal Government still debates the issue of human cloning, the impression remains that on the one side of the debate are scientists, and…
Australians are talking a lot lately about the problem of obesity. It is of course a genuine concern, given the health problems associated with it.…
When Muslim leaders speak about freedom, they have a very different concept in mind than does the Western world. Freedom for a Muslim is complete…
It is not hard to produce solid reasons as to why our school system is in need of a major overhaul. On a daily basis…
Capitalism is not perfect. But it has produced a wide range of benefits. No other economic system has been able to come up with the…
Religion in the public arena has been getting a lot of attention recently. The Australian Democrats are fearful of Christian influence in politics. (Indeed, I…
Bernard-Henri Lévy is not your average French intellectual, for at least three reasons: what he says usually makes sense; he is more or less conservative;…
Detractors of the war in Iraq say we have been bogged down in another Vietnam and we have simply made matters worse. Critics cite the…
Marriage is not regarded very highly nowadays. The institution of marriage has been savaged for some time, and the attacks look set to continue for…
In a world that seems to grow more insecure and precarious by the day, there are always new issues arising to be greatly concerned about.…
In the early 80s when a strange new disease appeared in Western cities, it was first called GRID by the medical community: Gay Related Immunodeficiency…