It is often claimed by atheists, misotheists and Christophobes that religion is the world’s biggest killer. There are two major problems with this. First, by…
On who? If you asked that question then that means the mainstream media has once again been doing its job – of censoring news and…
It is commonplace to find in Islam the broad distinction between Dar al-Harb (the house of war) and Dar al-Islam (the house of Islam). The…
The Spanish philosopher Santayana once said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. This is tragically true, and it is one…
I have just written about two academics who have offered a spirited defence of killing newborn babies. Now the editor of the journal they were…
One of the more odd sets of bedfellows today is the Western left and Islam. While it might seem that the two groups should be…
I have noted before how so much of the social decay and moral collapse which we are witnessing all around us has not been happening…
Now that Israel has entered Gaza, the response from much of the world’s press has been totally predictable. Israel is called a nation of terrorists…
Jesus promised us that dark days would lie ahead. They would not be a time for the weak-hearted or the half-hearted. Our Lord expects courage…
Indonesia is this week free of three murderous thugs – and Australia does not like it. Australia is intent on lecturing Indonesia and the world…
If you are a follower of Jesus today, there is a very real chance – at least in many parts of the globe – that…
If militant Islam ends up taking over Australia and the West; if freedom and democracy give way to sharia law and dhimmitude; and if America…
The Christian faith gets some pretty bad press nowadays. Certainly much of this is deserved. But for all its faults, the Christian religion is responsible…
In these secular times, religion regularly gets a bad rap. And anti-Christian bigotry especially accelerates, with most of the world’s ills, from burnt toast to…
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…
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…
How does the secular left deal with evil? Well, it has great difficulty in even recognising evil, argues Jewish commentator and radio host, Dennis Prager.…
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…
Once upon a time a person could buy a newspaper and be fairly confident that the news covered therein was more or less reliable, factual…