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If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – [...]

Welcome to part 2 of this three-part essay on media bias. In part 1 we traced the innovations of media technology and concluded that while the technology can’t be biased the operators always are and always have been. Now let’s consider how we as individuals [...]

Professor James Tooley, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Buckingham, discusses the role of education in the modern age, and the relationship between parental and government oversight in our education systems. Buckingham University is the oldest of only six private higher education institutions in the UK [...]

Welcome to part 1 of this essay on media bias. About five years ago, I woke up to the bias of the ABC, and ever since then I no longer listen to her at home or in the car, unless it's ‘Classic FM’! In this [...]

Lessons from the train derailment and environmental catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio, USA. An overheated wheel bearing on a railcar was the likely cause of the train derailment in eastern Ohio on 3 February, according to a preliminary report Thursday, 23 February, from the National [...]

In 2023, Sydney Mardi Gras and Sydney WorldPride unite to present a truly global LGBTQIA+ pride festival -- the very first in the Southern Hemisphere. The theme for the festival, GATHER, DREAM, AMPLIFY, was developed in partnership with our extraordinary First Nations and LGBTQIA+ communities. [...]

John Anderson in conversation with Vishal Mangalwadi. On 3 February 2023, John Anderson had a conversation with Vishal Mangalwadi, an Indian philosopher and social reformer who has written several popular books on the Bible’s seismic influence on us all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVab2zMq1XM John and Vishal Mangalwadi take [...]

I commend these two articles about this revival, The Asbury Revival and Asbury: 200 Years of Revival by Kurt Mahlburg. As a recently retired faculty member from Alphacrucis University College, based in Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, I ask the question, ‘Why not here in [...]

Dennis Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show. Last September, John Anderson and Dennis Prager’s discussion focused on the Left’s ideology. This little piece picks up [...]

As opposed to yet another complaint about yet another negative happening in society, John Anderson and Mary Eberstadt had a great conversation last week about what we can do to help families, one of the major casualties in our day, begin to build society back [...]

A Man Called Otto is an excellent movie. But I must call out the attempt to normalise transgenderism that's tucked away within this film.

Does climate change? If so, why? Is there really a climate crisis? If there isn’t, then why do so many believe there is? Is climate change a religion? In drafting this essay, I have drawn heavily on my own training and experience as a teacher [...]

The heart of democracy is the ability to conduct civil discourse, teasing out the benefits and pitfalls of various ideas and courses of action. When we lose the ability to make genuine conversation and shy away from robust debate, our society becomes enslaved to soundbites [...]

This essay seeks to examine the state of play three years on from the launch of the COVID-19 operation, now that it seems to be winding back its central rule over society. I will try to explore outside the box, leaving nothing taboo or tolerated. [...]

Back in January 2018, The Catholic World Report claimed that Jordan Peterson was a prophet and that he was ‘a problem for the progressives’. On Saturday night, I was one of eight thousand who attended Peterson’s session in the Aware Super Theatre, Darling Harbour, Sydney. [...]

These two terms sound very similar, don’t they? Nothing could be further from the truth. Today I would like to explore their differences, as well as the danger of one and the importance of the other. Critical Theory Critical theory (CT) can be traced back [...]

Who gets to decide what constitutes a "conspiracy theory"? What are conspiracy theories, and in the daily deluge of information, how do we discern what is the truth? I stumbled across this paper on the internet, Advances in Political Psychology, Vol. 40, Suppl. 1, 2019, [...]

Reading about the startling story of the Moravians is truly inspiring. They have left us a rich legacy and example of prayer-filled faith in action, bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to the whole world. As a boy, growing up in Yorkshire, England, I [...]

Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist, released one of his most memorable songs (poems), Anthem, in 1992.  I have only come across his work in recent years and this song has made an abiding impression on me. In this piece, I [...]

A book review of "Prey: Immigration, Islam and the erosion of women’s rights" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2021). The book describes the burgeoning crisis in Europe and outlines solutions to these horrendous problems created by leftist policies. Note the spelling of ‘prey’ -- this should [...]