Since the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in America's and the West's premier public health institutions has plummeted to historic lows. Recent KFF polls show only 47% of Americans now trust the CDC to provide reliable vaccine information, a sharp decline from pre-pandemic levels near 85%. This erosion isn't random or driven by "misinformation." It's a ra...
Harrow School has many centuries-old traditions that make it a jewel in the crown of British education: straw hats, black tailcoats and its own form of archaic slang, where "beaks" means teachers and "the ducker" is the swimming pool. Soon it will need to grapple with some new customs. Sir Winston Churchill's alma mater is opening two schools in th...
A recent Adelaidenow.com.au article had finance gurus giving their take on how to survive the hard ties ahead. I was not impressed by any of them, except Scott Pape, who to me appealed to old school thrift and wisdom. I am so impressed that I thought about buying his book, but then, decided it was out of my meagre budget. "What am I doing to safegu...
For years, Google (and its parent Alphabet) positioned itself as a climate hero. It loudly proclaimed that "climate change is an urgent threat to humanity," invested heavily in wind and solar, matched its electricity use with renewable energy purchases since 2017, and set ambitious targets: carbon-free operations by 2030 and, at one point, carbon-f...
Australia is facing genuine fuel stress in April 2026, triggered by the Iran conflict and the effective disruption (and in parts, closure) of the Strait of Hormuz. This has ripple effects on global oil flows and especially on Asia's refineries, which supply the bulk of Australia's imported refined petrol, diesel, and jet fuel. Hundreds of service s...
The truth about surgeon J. Marion Sims is nuanced, not the cartoonish villain of modern activist narratives nor an unblemished saint. The Midwestern Doctor's Substack post (linked below) accurately captures this after the author revisited the topic in response to a retired neurosurgeon's email. It draws heavily from L. Lewis Wall's 2006 scholarly p...
Easter arrives each year in a country that increasingly does not know what to do with it. For many, it has become little more than a long weekend. A chance to get away, eat too much, buy chocolate for the kids, and enjoy a brief pause before the machine of modern life starts grinding again. Supermarkets sell sweetness, advertisers sell sentimentali...
Strip God from public life and you don't get freedom, you get power, control, and a new creed without accountability. Christianity is not a lifestyle. It's not a cultural accessory. It is a total claim on the human person, on the mind, on the conscience and on the soul. Here's the reality that my critics refuse to admit, every single person in this...
In her recent appearance discussed on Children's Health Defense (April 3, 2026), reproductive epidemiologist Dr. Shanna Swan didn't mince words: fertility is "in the toilet," and everyday chemicals in our modern world are a huge part of the problem. Drawing from decades of research, including her influential meta-analyses and the new Netflix docume...
At Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus — the stunning victory of life over death and the promise of new creation. Yet in the quiet moments between the hymns and the family gatherings, many of us also ponder the biggest questions: Why does anything exist at all? Why is there a universe, rather than nothing? Modern cosmology has taken us fu...
William Butler Yeats captured a haunting truth in "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Today, many feel that same uneasy sense of drift. The world isn't collapsing overnight, but it is slouchi...
Huxley's observation, written in the shadow of two world wars and the rise of totalitarian regimes, still cuts like a knife in 2026. It explains why the same patterns of power, deception, exploitation, and folly keep repeating — and why the "bad guys" (the ambitious, the ruthless, the ideologically driven) so often seem to keep on keeping on, no ma...
We live in a plastic world. Tiny fragments of microplastics and even smaller nanoplastics (particles under 1 micrometre) are now found almost everywhere — in our food, water, air, and increasingly inside our bodies. These particles are linked to inflammation, oxidative stress, disrupted gut barriers, and potential long-term risks including neurolog...
In the fifth week of the 2026 US-Israeli war on Iran, a disturbing new front has opened: the deliberate targeting — or at least damaging — of critical water infrastructure. On April 3, Kuwait reported that an Iranian attack struck a power and desalination plant, causing material damage to components of the facility. An Indian worker was killed in a...
Raw Egg Nationalist's provocative thesis in The Last Men (2026), lands like a gut punch from Mike Tyson: modern liberal democracy is not neutral ground. It is a hormonal environment engineered — deliberately or not — to suppress masculinity. Where traditional societies rewarded high-testosterone traits (courage, risk-taking, competition, provision,...
From the O. J. Simpson trial to Britain's "swift courts," justice now bends to identity—proof that without shared culture, the scales no longer balance. Justice isn't blind anymore: Multiculturalism has made impartial justice impossible. "Law grows with the growth, and strengthens with the strength of the people, and finally dies away as the nation...
This simple yet profound statement captures the heart of genuine education. It calls for cultivating curious, independent minds capable of rigorous questioning, logical reasoning, and intellectual humility — rather than producing compliant vessels filled with approved opinions. The ideal echoes the Socratic approach: a method of teaching through pe...
Popes of earlier ages would not recognize this man's teaching. On Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026, Pope Leo XIV preached a homily that has been getting a great deal of attention for his claim that "Jesus, King of Peace," actually "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: 'Even though you make many prayers, I will ...
Aldous Huxley once observed that the greatest lesson of history is that men rarely learn from it; the blog theme for today. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recurring pattern of powerful leaders falling into what political scientist Robert Pape calls the "Escalation Trap" — the dangerous cycle where limited military actions, meant to coerce...
The 2019 paper in Nature Human Behaviour by Philipp Schmid and Cornelia Betsch offers practical advice for "rebutting science denialism" in public debates on woke Leftist topics like vaccination and climate change. It frames certain positions as dangerous "denialism" that spreads misinformation and contradicts established science, then tests strate...
