Early this year Prime Minister John Howard stirred up a hornet’s nest of indignation when he made some comments about the trend towards private education.…
In the culture wars, fair fights are hard to come by. Sometimes the odds are so stacked against you, that you hardly feel like wading…
Over the years I have been involved in many public debates on contentious social issues. Given that there is a left/liberal hegemony over much of…
There has been a noticeable shift over the past fifty years concerning those whom society, and the media, look to as authority figures, as sources of…
Doubleday, 2001. I realize that I am taking a risk. As a Protestant reviewing a decidedly Catholic book for a partly Catholic audience, I walk…
A raft of new legislation is being passed throughout the Western world. These laws are called by various names, such as vilification or tolerance or…
An extremely revealing and disturbing television documentary was aired on America’s Public Broadcasting System in February of last year. Entitled The Merchants of Cool, the…
The Infertility Treatment Authority recently put on a one-day public seminar in Melbourne entitled “The Welfare and Interests of Persons Born as a Result of…
A federal Private Member’s Bill to be introduced soon by the Australian Democrats prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexuality is said to urge that…
California, for those who know anything about that famous American state, is regarded by many as a land of fruits and nuts. All things weird…