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Is the West copying Communist China’s surveillance state? The overwhelming majority of the 264 articles I have written on Covid and the big state overreactions of the past few years had to do with how very easily and quickly our governments were able to take over almost every aspect [...]

This is the last of a three-part series inspired by the novel Armageddon by Leon Uris (1963). (Read parts one and two here.) A remarkable, fictional story based on actual history, from the American perspective, of the end of WWII in Germany with a particular [...]

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 – [...]

A Nicaraguan bishop falsely accused of “spreading fake news” has chosen life in prison over exile in the United States. Rolando Álvarez, a vocal opponent of Nicaragua’s socialist President Daniel Ortego, was sentenced on Friday to 26 years in gaol, after being “tried” for “treason”. [...]

The journey from liberal democracy to bureaucratic tyranny -- and iatrocide? Editor's Note: This incisive article by Ramesh Thakur highlights the inane rules to which ordinary citizens have been unjustly subjected through the course of the pandemic and beyond, and traces how governments came to [...]

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 [...]

Some wise words about the ever-present threat of statism. ‘The state is my shepherd; I shall not want.’ As worship of the living God shrinks, worship of the state grows. It used to be Communist societies and Muslim-majority ones where we witnessed tyranny on a [...]

Aspects of the totalitarian dystopias described in the seminal works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have sadly come to pass in our lifetimes. Let us take heed of their warnings, lest we further succumb to the creeping encroachments upon morality and freedom. Decades ago [...]

The secular left West is becoming ever more similar to communism. Christianity was one of the main driving forces of the West. For many centuries, they were in many ways synonymous. But as Christianity weakened, so too did the West. Thus what can be called [...]

The desire to be left alone is quickly being denied us by the ever-expanding state. If you have ever seen the first of the Rambo films (First Blood), you will know that a Vietnam War vet who just wants to be left alone is harassed [...]

Entertainer slams the Catholic Church for opposing euthanasia. The Australian newspaper reported this week that Catholic priests are likely to deny the last rites to people who commit suicide with the help of the state. “Catholic priests to deny last rites in VAD (Voluntary Assisted [...]

Dissenters opposing Iran’s hardline hijab mandate face having their bank accounts frozen, prison, or worse, if they fail to comply with what is being framed as a public health order. The 1979 Islamic dress code, which has been a catalyst for massive pro-civil liberty demonstrations [...]

A conservatism that focuses on individual freedom as the supreme virtue can only undermine Christianity, in the long run. If you emphasise freedom from government overreach, then it is a small step to seeing the need to free individuals from the reach of religion. The [...]

To understand the diabolical nature of the Davos deities, read this book. This is not the first book to appear in recent times critiquing the Great Reset, Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and related matters. Some of these volumes I have already reviewed. But [...]

According to the Oxford Dictionary, a Social Justice Warrior is ‘a person who expresses or promotes socially progressive views.’ The online Urban Dictionary offers a more substantial explanation: “A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often [...]

Statism and its war on God -- a closer look at twentieth-century atheistic political ideologies which sought to make the state supreme at the grievous cost of human freedom and lives. This is a follow-up piece to the earlier article I wrote on political religion. [...]

Statist religion and its war on Christianity. Because God exists, and because we are all made in His image, that means all people are inescapably religious. We all are made to worship, and if we refuse to worship the one true living God, we will [...]

The censorship of the tech thought police is a huge problem. Social media is today's main public forum, but our use of it is subject to the whims of obtuse corporations. Well, since I am once again in the Facebook slammer, I guess I might [...]

Sheen clearly knew about the dangers of godless statism. The past century has seen the twin evils of Communism and Nazism. Both were godless ideologies built on the worship of the state. It was a characteristic of the great thinkers, writers and political figures of [...]

Delivered by The Hon. John Anderson AC FTSE The Great Hall, Parliament House 18 August 2022 ~~~ I first met Tim Fischer in 1984 when I was 28 and he was 37. I was struck by his wide-ranging curiosity, genuine interest in others, and his [...]