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by Peter Downie, FamilyVoice Australia. Last month, Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt ordered Liberal Senator Claire Chandler to attend a “conciliation conference” with a person who claimed to be offended and insulted by a newspaper column she wrote in July. The senator had pointed out [...]

Cancel culture is censorship culture: The cancel culture is alive and well, and getting worse by the day. Usually the targets are Christians and conservatives -- especially Christian conservatives. But so bad has this toxic movement become that now it is consuming its own. We [...]

Thin-skinned trolls bombard a small family business -- to what end? Last week on Facebook, I noticed a post on a page titled, “Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee”: What was she so upset about? The owner of a small family business, Cider Flats Apple [...]

“Given renewed support for the family during an election year and after the COVID lockdown, even a radical group like Black Lives Matter has toned down its anti-family advocacy,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. Morse noted that the Black Lives Matter [...]

In a year of ongoing global protests involving Black Lives Matter™, any artwork addressing racial inequality was always going to be popular. But the fact that Vincent Namatjira’s piece has won the 2020 Archibald Art Prize is ironically, a self-portrait of the systemic racism currently [...]

Ever since Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s providential passing, the radical doctrinaire feminist has been receiving -- even from conservatives -- something approaching an encomium of praise. In fact, CNN is reporting that Ginsburg “will become the first woman in history to lie in state in the [...]

Is it true that leaders of the BLM movement, including one of the co-founders, are calling on the spirits of the dead? That they claim to receive spiritual power from the deceased? That they talk with these spirits and even give them names? The answer to all these questions is yes.

Our society is increasingly polarised. We’re less likely to hold favourable opinions of those who disagree with our political views. We’re less likely to develop deep friendships with people who vote the other way. Instead, we’re more likely to avoid people with political differences. We’re [...]

History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

President Trump recently took the courageous step of banning the use of ‘Critical Race Theory’ and ‘White Privilege’ training for all U.S. federal agencies. These categories are integral to the larger socio-political philosophy, commonly referred to as ‘Cultural Marxism’ (CM), which is part of the [...]

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow [...]

Not so many years ago, ‘political correctness’ was an eye-rolling description of our culture’s tendency to self-censor in polite company, and to shame those who wouldn’t play along. Soon after, the culturally observant noted the ascent of ‘identity politics’ — a growing pattern of pitting [...]

I grew up with a victim mentality. Nobody called it that at the time. But as I look back, that’s what it was. You see, I was a refugee from communist Eastern Europe -- from Hungary. I grew up among other refugees, among victims. Victims [...]

Some educators claim that teaching the objective facts of mathematics and science is an imposition of Western imperialism. Facts once assumed true by everyone are quickly becoming controversial. This is a trend we have all become aware of. There is, for example, increasing pressure to [...]

Do not rely on the MSM to learn what Harris is really all about: As you all should know by now, Joe Biden has picked California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. But there is plenty of stuff you would NOT know if you [...]

The 21st century is rife with a rash mentality of judgment. It calls for political correctness, an inefficient substitute to respectful politeness. Yet, simultaneously, it stirs up an outcry against any form of ridicule it deems as misplaced. The cancel culture climate is part of [...]

Oprah Winfrey is a picture of the American Dream. Raised in a rural area and from a poor family, Oprah has worked hard and ridden a wave of popularity to acquire a net worth of over $2.5 billion. She is adored by Americans of every [...]

Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., called Planned Parenthood’s announcement that Margaret Sanger’s name will be taken off its Manhattan clinic “an important gesture, but still just a token. In New York City, there will still be almost as many abortions of black [...]

It takes an enormous amount of courage to go against the crowd. And one of the most inspiring examples in recent days is that of NBA Basketball player, Jonathan Edwards. Instead of taking a knee and wearing a Black Lives Matter™ T-shirt, Isaac stood and [...]

Israel Folau is in the news again, and this time it’s for something he didn’t do. Over the weekend, Folau was the only person — players and officials included — on the field to not take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter. To [...]