Michael Cook
Michael Cook is the editor of Mercator. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
Articles by Michael Cook:
22 November 2024
2.4 MINS
What had these Democrats been smoking when they assumed that pornography and masturbation were the top issues for young male voters? No wonder they lost. Trump is terribly flawed, but he treated them like men.
29 October 2024
3.2 MINS
Last week, the Australian Catholic University managed to turn every word in its name into an oxymoron. It’s Australian, but neither its staff nor its students believe in a “fair go”. It’s officially Catholic, but students walked out on an eminent speaker who opposed abortion.
24 October 2024
4.7 MINS
It would be a mistake to read too much into Harris’s words, but by exalting abortion as a manifestation of freedom, isn’t she close to endorsing Sartre’s bleakness and despair? A distinctive moral feature of abortion is being alone – radical alienation from both the child and her partner.
21 June 2024
5.5 MINS
Around the world, governments and professional associations are questioning the evidence base for gender medicine. Here's a round-up of the latest developments.
26 April 2024
4.2 MINS
Stanisława Leszczyńska's heroic legacy at Auschwitz is a testament to faith, courage and humanity in the face of unimaginable horrors.
17 April 2024
4.4 MINS
Despite the stumbles and moral collapse of a few, people see that God is at work in the hidden and self-sacrificing efforts of clergy and lay people. They see that life without God is meaningless. Green shoots of all kinds are breaking through the ashes of woke bonfires.
6 March 2024
9.5 MINS
Any one of these reasons should be enough to press the pause button on giving the IVF industry special protection.
6 February 2024
2.7 MINS
The women's magazine 'Cosmopolitan' recently featured an article promoting Satanic abortion rituals. Talk about spilling the beans.
15 January 2024
3.4 MINS
When euthanasia was legalised for the terminally ill, it was inevitable that it would be expanded to include children and people with disabilities. The slippery slope is not a fallacy: it's a prophecy.
21 December 2023
3.4 MINS
A doctor from Victoria, Nicholas Carr, recently asked the Federal Court to rule that “voluntary assisted dying” is not suicide. The judge, Justice Wendy Abraham, refused.
15 September 2023
6.5 MINS
The Royal Commission majored on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church while mostly ignoring it in state schools.