The Spanish philosopher Santayana said that those who fail to learn from history will end up repeating its mistakes. This has certainly been the case…
The general drift of both state and federal policy on the drug issue – as on a number of other social issues – is what…
Here I examine more problems with the harm minimisation approach to drug use. I finished Part One with the claim that this is a failed…
Harm minimisation advocates often claim that the distribution of clean syringes will help protect addicts from infectious diseases and protect the community at large. Thus…
On the writing about C. S. Lewis there is no end – or so it seems. And for good reason: Lewis was one of the…
The so-called harm-minimisation crowd is at it again. Recently we have had yet another call for medically-supervised heroin injecting rooms in Australia. One such proposal…
I became a Christian in mid-1971, the same time that a groundbreaking work appeared. Saul Alinsky’s influential Rules for Radicals came out then, so I…
As everyone now knows, troubled singer Amy Winehouse passed away on Saturday. She was as famous for her drug and alcohol-plagued life as her musical…
An incredible story reported in today’s press underscores yet again why we never should legalise euthanasia. It is in fact a bittersweet story, because it…
It may have been “twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play,” as the Beatles sang about in their 1967 album “Sgt.…
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,”…
The push to legalise euthanasia is continuous and relentless. Thus those concerned about the dignity of human life must be aware of the challenges, and…
Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Back in 1986 a book appeared entitled The Media Elite by Lichter, Rothman and Lichter. The book’s thesis was that most…
There has been a lot of debate lately about the issue of heroin injecting rooms. Voices from all sides are being heard on the issue,…
“It is children’s right to be children, to enjoy the pleasures of a childhood. . . . In the end, a childhood is the most…