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Those of us who live in Western nations are incredibly blessed. “The rule of law” is a principle that has long protected us from tyranny. It is the conviction that kings and dictators no longer get to run our lives. Rather, we are governed by [...]

Editor's Note: Clinical immunologist and University of Newcastle Emeritus Professor of Pathology Robert Clancy, a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s COVID-19 Expert Database, provides an incisive look at Australia's handling of the pandemic, with timely suggestions on how we can move forward successfully. [...]

Note: Between early September and early October of 2021, Google censored the following article, ensuring it was entirely missing from their results when its exact title was entered as a search term. For reasons unexplained, it is now once again searchable on Google. It would [...]

‘The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried. “I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed [...]

“Dismiss anything else…. We will continue to be your single source of truth…. unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.” Thus spoke New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in a video that has re-emerged for some reason after some 15 months. [...]

To be Born an Untouchable One night, while an Indian man was away in a nearby city, a group of men came to his farm. They broke his fences, stole his tractor, beat his wife and burned down his house. He was a leatherworker and [...]

As nations around the world continue to battle outbreaks of Covid-19, and many long for a return to normal life, ‘vaccine hesitancy’ has become a major talking point. Increasingly, frustration is being expressed by those who have been vaccinated, and who wish that others would [...]

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” — Romans 12:21 Part 2: What We Can Do To Save Ours This article is an abbreviated version of Chapter 14 of How We Are Amazingly Made, by Jerry Bergman, Graham McLennan and Tom [...]

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ~ Viktor Frankl, Jewish Holocaust survivor When Viktor Frankl arrived at the Nazi prison camp, he immediately promised himself that he wouldn’t ‘run into the wire’, a term for the [...]

Here’s something that will blow your mind: human knowledge now doubles every 12 hours. Every 12 hours. In the 1940s, it was doubling every 25 years. Before 1900, it doubled about every century. So it’s not just that knowledge has increased: it’s that our access [...]

Earlier this week we reported on the historic anti-communist protests taking place in Cuba, along with the weak response from the Biden administration. The White House has been criticised for its delay in commenting on the demonstrations, and also for mischaracterising them merely as protests [...]

When it comes to lockdowns, Christians are divided. On one side, it is argued that lockdowns are the obvious way to love one’s neighbour, as they prevent transmission of the virus. Indeed, various studies have shown that lockdowns do curb transmission not only of COVID-19, [...]

Over the weekend, unprecedented scenes emerged from the small island nation of Cuba, with thousands taking to the streets to demand freedom from 60 years of Communist tyranny. Crowds chanted, “We are not afraid!” and “Freedom!” — and called for an end to the impoverished [...]

American historian Daniel J. Boorstin once said that “the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” These words ring particularly true when we consider the behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry, or ‘Big Pharma’. Over the past two years, two [...]

Last year’s U.S. presidential election has been analysed backwards and forwards. But with so many layers to the story, it can be difficult to summarise all that took place -- beginning with the now-discredited claims that Trump cheated in 2016, through to Covid-19 and the [...]

The San Francisco’s Gay Men’s Chorus recently released a mock Broadway video boasting how “they really will convert your children”. After a massive backlash, the video has been taken down, but it can still be viewed here: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1412898592864579586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1412898592864579586%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaldronpool.com%2Fwere-coming-for-your-children-san-francisco-gay-mens-chorus%2F Note in particular the opening lines of [...]

“Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, ‘Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; for I am with you, and no-one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.’ And [...]

Our political, corporate and academic leaders like to tell us that we are ‘all in this together’. It’s a communitarian expression which we would like to think is true. In my younger days when I veered towards communism, that collective ideal was a strong one [...]

If you can change your sexual orientation and gender identity, why not your ethnic identity? Oli London is a British social media influencer who has long been known by his fans for a love of Korea, having lived there for several years and becoming fluent [...]

One of the more disturbing features of modern society is the practice of crony capitalism: ‘a capitalist society that is based on the close relationships between business people and the state’. An obvious consequence of crony capitalism is that products and services which are not [...]