Australia Day protests: What’s their end game?

As another January rolls to a close and the "whole, dreary tribe" of left-progressivism roll out their annual festival of foot-stamping and fist-shaking, it's time to re-post this. Summer is a busy time for Australia’s whinging left: in between furiously posting lying memes about “Jesus wuz a refugee” and clutching their pearls over ANZAC Day, …

The death of knowledge

O, weep for Academia — he is dead - apologies to Shelley. Two years ago, Camille Paglia stated bluntly that “universities are a wreck right now”. Two separate events in recent weeks have shown that she is right. In the first, academic activists have forcibly purged published papers they didn’t like. In the second, three …

Welcome to the Nellie: Science and Superstition in the Modern Age

Whenever I think of the state of Western civilisation, here at the dawn of the 21st Century, I always see in my mind the fireman of the Nellie. The Nellie is the name of the river boat that carries Joseph Conrad’s narrator down the Congo and into the “Heart of Darkness”. In the hot, dirty …

The Dangerous Denialism of the Atheists

It’s a conventional wisdom of too many atheists, especially the group dubbed the “New Atheists” that there is no such thing as militant atheism, and that atheism is a peaceful ideology, in contrast to religions, which they characterise as bloodthirsty and violent. That atheism has historically been correlated with, let alone directly responsible for, some …

How the Australian Government Created a Treasure Trove for Citizen Journalists

Going into bat for the legacy media which had had his own back for so long, Barack Obama praised them as “the curated media”. Likewise drunk on their own self-regard, the legacy media developed a mania for so-called “fact-checking”. Both Obama and his cheerleaders in the legacy media labour under the delusion that they are …

The Astonishing Denialism of Climate Believers

I recently had yet another…interesting, shall we say, lesson in the value of talking to people with whom you disagree. Now, Tasmania is a funny place, where hippy-greenie enclaves live cheek-by-jowl with deeply conservative farming and logging communities. I have friends on both sides of this cultural divide. It just so happened that last week …