Imagine transporting four figures to a typical Western city in 2026: a farmer or tribal leader from around 1026 BCE in the ancient Near East or early Greek world; a Roman paterfamilias or citizen from the Republic era two and a half millennia ago; an American founder or contemporary from 1776; a veteran or citizen from 1926; and your own grandfathe...
The standard defence of gain-of-function research runs something like this: nature is already churning out dangerous pathogens, so scientists must deliberately engineer more dangerous versions in the lab to understand their weaknesses and prepare defences, just in case one emerges naturally or, heaven forbid, leaks from the very laboratory where it...
The New York Times has once again revealed the trembling anxiety at the heart of progressive elite opinion. A recent style-section piece (masquerading as serious journalism) fixates on the simultaneous pregnancies of three prominent women connected to the Trump White House: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Katie Miller (wife of Stephen Miller), an...
"Far from being the tale of near-genocidal oppression, the better story of Australia is how a convict colony, within a century, not only had the world's highest standard of living but was actually the world's leading pioneer of liberal democracy." The history of nations, how it's presented, and how it's thought of, matters to countries and their ci...
For decades we have been told that adults need eight hours of sleep each night, almost as though nature handed Moses a second set of tablets specifying the correct bedtime. The advice has become one of those pieces of conventional wisdom repeated so often that few people stop to ask where it came from or whether it applies equally to everyone. Yet ...
NSW Premier Chris Minns recently offered a remarkably candid window into the governing philosophy of modern Australia's political class. Speaking on free speech restrictions, he stated: "I acknowledge that we don't have the same free speech rules that they have in the United States and I make no apologies for that, we have got a responsibility to k...
Doomscrolling has become one of the defining habits of the digital age. It describes the seemingly endless process of swiping through social media feeds, news websites, X posts, podcasts, and video clips filled with war, economic instability, institutional failures, cultural conflict, scientific controversy, political dysfunction, and predictions o...
Mary Holland's recent guest editorial in The Defender makes a compelling case against the growing practice of scientific retraction. She argues that retraction often operates less as a safeguard for truth and more as a modern form of censorship, a collective "stoning" by journals that removes inconvenient findings from the record rather than allowi...
The articles linked below, paint a revealing picture of our cultural moment. Headlines and discussions lament "Where Have All the Men Gone?", probe the rise of the "femosphere" as a dark mirror to the manosphere, and explore online spaces where women are urged toward strategic detachment from or exploitation of men. These are not neutral observatio...
The new Supergirl film has crash-landed at the box office, opening to a disappointing approximately $38 million domestically against expectations closer to $50 million or more, a significant setback for a big-budget DC project with a reported $170 million production cost plus substantial marketing. Critical reception has been mixed-to-poor (hoverin...
Most Australians think multiculturalism means something fairly straightforward. People come here, they work hard, obey the law, learn English, raise their kids, join in, respect the country, and bring a bit of their old home with them. The local Vietnamese bakery. The Italian club. Greek Easter. Indian restaurants. Filipino families gathering at th...
Headlines recently proclaimed that scientists had found the building blocks of DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. Predictably, some commentators immediately suggested that this discovery further weakens the case for God and strengthens purely materialistic explanations of life's origins. Christians should resist the temptation either to panic or to...
A recent Zero Hedge piece highlights yet another practical failure of socialism: its tendency to erode incentives, breed inefficiency, and concentrate power in the hands of bureaucrats. These critiques are familiar and well-founded. Central planning cannot match the knowledge and dynamism of free markets. Shortages, misallocation, and stagnat...
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have long pushed the boundaries of acceptable Left-wing politics. But even by their standards, the rise of Darializa Avila Chevalier (DAC) in New York City marks a new level of radical excess, one so extreme that it has left even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Bernie Sanders on the sidelines! Chevalier...
The overwhelming majority of the French public are in favour of a large-scale deportation effort, including the removal of significant numbers of foreigners who detract from society. A poll conducted by Consumer Science & Analytics (CSA) on behalf of Le Journale du Dimanche has found that 83 per cent of French adults are supportive of the...
The "Great Replacement" in referring to mass third world immigration into historically White nations, has gained wide currency among those who are called by certain types of journalists and academics "far right conspiracy theorists." That the same process is called a similar term — "replacement migration" — by the United Nations (U.N.) might be con...
"In Britain, declinism has long been a national sport." This observation captures something profound about the British psyche. For decades, a narrative of inexorable national decline has permeated politics, media, literature, and pub conversations. From the loss of empire to economic stagnation, cultural fragmentation, and fading global influ...
A recent piece from Children's Health Defense highlights growing scrutiny of homeopathy studies, including retractions and attacks on published research. Critics dismiss the field as pseudoscience, water with memory, or placebo at best. Yet the pattern is familiar: peer-reviewed evidence supporting homeopathic efficacy or mechanisms repeatedl...
A media outlet linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has openly declared that Tehran has "no choice" but to develop a nuclear bomb to secure "peace and calm." This comes despite a recent Memorandum of Understanding with the Trump administration and pledges regarding IAEA inspectors. The article explicitly draws parallels to Chin...
The Economist recently hosted a sobering piece suggesting that if you thought the 2008 Global Financial Crisis was bad, you haven't seen anything yet. The author (link below) is right to sound the alarm, but even that understates the scale. The GFC was a financial heart attack triggered by bad debt, leverage, and regulatory failure. AI promises som...
