Forty years ago a farm in upstate New York was transformed into a rock and roll heaven. Billed as “Three days of peace and music,”…
Yawn. Here we go again. More “cutting edge” artists seeking to make a statement. Another “bold” bit of social commentary. Another case of tax-payer funded…
Bioethics has to do with moral reflection on biological and biotechnological developments. Such ethical thinking is certainly needed, since biotechnology is racing ahead, often impervious…
You can always tell when it is Easter – or some other important date on the Christian calendar: along comes some self-obsessed and self-important “artist”,…
No, I am not being a masochist here in writing on topics which are too theologically incorrect to even mention nowadays. There is in fact…
That filmmakers take a bit of artistic license with their products is nothing new. It happens quite often. Indeed, films purporting to deal with historical…
There has been a lot of media attention and commentary on the latest outrage concerning Australian photographer Bill Henson. It turns out he scoured schoolyards…
In 1985 American media critic Neil Postman wrote an important book entitled Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it he argued that Americans were being dumbed…
When there is so much bad news around, it is great to get some good news once in a while. And it doesn’t get much…
Keeping up with cultural decline and mental erosion has now become a full time occupation. Simply listing all the cases of Political Correctness would fill…
The second instalment of the film version of The Chronicles of Narnia is now in the cinemas. And it is very good in many respects.…
Windblown Media, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) I have offered my general (and positive) assessments of The Shack in part one of this…
Windblown Media, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) The two mega-themes of this novel are the love of God and human suffering. Those are…
Children’s author Philip Pullman has written a “Dark Trilogy,” the first volume of which, The Golden Compass, is now a major motion picture. Nothing wrong…
It really does get tedious after a while. Self-proclaimed “artists” who want to make a strong and “courageous” statement to “get us to think”, et…
Theodore Dalrymple is a top-notch English commentator and a gifted essayist. The articles featured here represent some of his best and most recent writings. The…
Lime Grove House Publishing, 2001. This volume is about the Harry Potter phenomenon and how concerned parents should respond. With four volumes in the series…
Simon & Schuster, 1993. A book appeared recently entitled The Loss of Virtue. It made the point that virtue, both public and private, is becoming…
Modern music has made some very radical changes in the past few decades. In 1953, the number one song was Patti Page’s How Much Is…
Albatross Books, 1992. In America nearly 60 per cent of all adults have never read a book. Bachelor’s degrees in English literature have declined by…