THOMAS SOWELL THOMAS Sowell is an American economist and social theorist who is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Sowell was born in North Carolina but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of Stuyvesant…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – WESTERN civilisation, instead of being valued even as its faults are acknowledged, is attacked as “Eurocentric” and riven with “white supremacism”. One of the most grievous crimes one can commit is to question the need for radical change…
CAN you identify one major problem facing Australia, which, if it were not created by the politicians, has not been made significantly worse by them? This is a question I sometimes ask, especially when invited to speak on the pressing need for…
THERE are two clues for those who believe a conspiracy exists behind the creation of the COVID State. One is the “they know they’re lying” argument that suggest that even if the politicians don’t fully realise that the Wuhan virus is not a global threat, their public health advisers surely do.
MANY in NSW were taken aback by “liberal” Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s decision to strap us all in for a lockdown as a result of a few dozen positive COVID tests and, as usual, no deaths. Even more were confounded by the lockdown extension leaked on Tuesday and announced on Wednesday, with its forced incarceration of school students, the promise of further and tougher restrictions on freedom, and, worst of all, the foreshadowing of a “COVID Plan” for the State.
BEFORE jetting off to the G7, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed the USAsia Centre in Perth on June 9. His address entitled “A world order that favours freedom” is an ambitious attempt at demonstrating that “liberal democracies work” considering that, in many countries, freedom is an elusive or vanishing goal.
RECENT events prove how destructive and widespread cancel culture is and how intent neo-Marxist inspired activists are to rewrite history and undermine and denigrate what is best about Western civilisation and societies like Australia. The most recent example involves Adam Smith, the renowned 18th century economist and philosopher whose highly influential book The Wealth of Nations revolutionised the study of commerce and who many consider one of the leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment.
PANICKED members of WA’s extreme Left Liberal Party have blamed faith-based candidates for their expected wipe-out on Saturday.
After defying the prime minister and committing to net zero carbon emissions a full 20 years earlier than the Greens – and promising to close half the State’s coal power stations while at it – the WA Liberals face an unprecedented routing at the March 13 election.
THERE used to be a statutory office whose very name struck terror into the hearts of those who feared for their sanity, now or in the future. This was the Master in Lunacy. Threats were frequently made that “men in white coats” were ready to take anyone away for behaviour or even comment judged irrational. We may well wonder what the Master would think of those who govern us today.
THE art of politics generally changes with each generation but in the past such changes were fairly slight and were kept from getting out of hand by older and more experienced political practitioners. However, in more recent times the change has been so fast-moving that it brings about a sense of confusion acerbated by the now 24-hour news cycle. What was once the Fourth Estate and a reliable check on political abuse of power now has little understanding of the art of politics and almost no regard for the national interest.
