Verena Brunschweiger, the German feminist author and self-proclaimed "childfree icon," has made a career out of urging people, mainly white Westerners, to stop having children. Her slogan "My bloodline ends with me" is presented as responsible, enlightened, and morally superior. In recent interviews she doubles down: pro-natalist voices like ...
Australian universities, once proud institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth, rigorous scholarship, and the transmission of Enlightenment values: reason, evidence, free inquiry, and intellectual excellence, are in steep decline. They are getting dumber, and dumber still. Standards have eroded, basic English proficiency among graduates i...
Australia is now in the grip of bird flu hysteria. Reports of avian influenza outbreaks have triggered mass culling orders, movement restrictions, and biosecurity crackdowns that treat backyard flocks and commercial operations with the urgency of a national emergency. Healthy birds, productive layers and prized breeders, are being preemptively dest...
Modern medicine regards organ transplantation as one of its greatest triumphs. Hearts, lungs, kidneys and livers routinely save lives; yet alongside this remarkable success an intriguing body of anecdotal reports refuses to disappear. Some transplant recipients claim that after surgery they developed new tastes in food, altered emotional disp...
Feminism sells itself as liberation, a path to empowerment, equality, and fulfillment. In reality, it has produced generations of angry, discontented, and often deeply unhappy women. As Janice Fiamengo compellingly documents in her recent essay "Bad Choices, Anger, and Mental Illness," the movement's leading lights have long exhibited pattern...
Here is a proposal for a right to bear arms for Australia, via constitutional amendment, and also for America to. There is little chance of something like this getting up in our hyper-liberal woke feminist society, but it is still an interesting thought experiment see if one can draft a piece of legislation that escapes the usual attacks, like the ...
An ABC program called Stuff the British Stole has now stooped to recruiting high school students to redesign the Australian flag, stripping out the Union Jack and replacing it with green and gold, kangaroos, indigenous suns, and ocean symbols, all in the name of being "more inclusive" and "more multicultural." One student explained they removed the...
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...
