The Rockford Institute, 1988. “We are busily unmaking one of the proudest social achievements in the nineteenth century, which was to take married women out…
The murder of two year-old James Bulger by two pre-teenage boys horrified England and the world. It seemed an anomaly. It was not. Shortly after…
Forgive me for being recalcitrant, but the Prime Minister’s Launch of the International Year of the Family on 6 December was at best, a complete…
Macmillan, 1993. In 1978 when Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered his now famous Harvard University commencement address, he both challenged and enraged his student audience. While denouncing…
The United Nations has declared 1994 to be the International Year of the Family. The UN has said that the main purpose of the Year…
Ignatius Press, 1991. The family has faced assorted threats throughout history. The French and Russian revolutions come to mind as two especially hostile forces to…
A new proposal to pay parents of young children $50 a week to stay at home is worth exploring. Queensland Labor backbencher, Mr Gary Johns,…
Penguin, 1993. “What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order – where diverse nations…
Crossway Books, 1992. Several good critiques of religious feminism have appeared lately, including two from Ignatius Press: Ungodly Rage, by Donna Steichen, and What Will…
Are all forms of living arrangements just the same? Do all family structures offer similar environments for a child’s development? Yes, according to the media.…
The murderers of little James Bulger had a least two strikes going against them even before they embarked upon their lives of petty crime in…
Centre for Independent Studies, 1992. It seems that the amount of pro-family rhetoric heard rises in proportion to the nearness of the March 13 federal…
Oxford University Press, 1992. In this volume 26 authors examine the social and economic consequences of divorce in a number of Western nations and in…
Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991. Exactly two years ago Kuwait was an occupied nation. In the West a tremendous debate took place as to…
Oxford University Press, 1992. In 1981 Paul Hollander published his very influential Political Pilgrims, a book which chronicled the journeys of Western intellectuals to Marxist…
I am beginning to suspect a conspiracy. A conspiracy of silence, of cover-ups, of misleading information. A conspiracy of what? – ASIO nefariousness? American imperialism?…
Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991. Carol Everett was responsible for the deaths of 35,000 people. No, she wasn’t a Nazi. Nor was she a KGB agent.…
Several weeks ago U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle caused a minor uproar concerning comments he made about television character Murphy Brown’s out-of-wedlock birth. The liberal-left…
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…
The death of one of the 20th century’s most influential free market thinkers, F.A. von Hayek, provides an interesting example of how the philosophical/ideological differences…