Veronika Winkels mercatornet.com Veronika Winkels is married with four young children. She majored in History and History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne before becoming a freelance writer, published poet, and sometimes-printmaker. Lately she spends more of her time child-wrangling. She is the founding Editor of
Michael Ippolito newsbusters.org Michael Ippolito is a senior politics major at the Catholic University of America studying politics and history from New Jersey. Michael Ippolito is the president of his college republican chapter and former treasurer of his Young Americans For Freedom chapter. Michael enjoys reading, lifting weights, and
“So what do you think? Women. A mistake? Or did he do it to us on purpose?” The Witches of Eastwick Was universal suffrage a mistake, after all? Were all those stuffy chaps, brandishing their cigars from the armchairs of their clubs, right when they huffed and said that women
Whatever its faults, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is a dazzling tapestry of character study. Rand sketches her characters with acid wit and little sympathy. One of her few sympathetic characters, at least initially, is the innocently sincere Catherine Halsey. But even she ends up as a nasty harridan — a
One of the most powerful tools of the Communists was denunciation. Survivors describe the process as “terrifying”. Imagine: mobs of your neighbours, co-workers, even friends and family, screaming abuse, spitting on you, beating you. Many were killed by the unhinged mobs. Whole populations lived in terror of denunciation: in communist
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. With the decades-long focus on “women’s right to abortion” now coming to a climax as
The implications of the leaking of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion for the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade cannot be overstated. Of all US institutions, the Supreme Court is supposed to be the one above the scrum of politics. The leak – the first leak of
If we are to believe the trans lobby, the idea that people regret “transitioning”, especially when they were children, is just a “transphobic myth”. But then, if were to believe these activists, biological men can give birth. Just ignore all those people who say they really do regret it. Hundreds
Get ready for exploding heads and trigger-necks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. You thought land-whales of indeterminate gender bellowing at the sky in 2017 was epic? Grab your popcorn and hold on to your seats, folks: it’s gonna be a crazy, violent ride. The Supreme
As Orwell wrote, in The Principles of Newspeak, the purpose of the language so called was “to make all other modes of thought impossible”. As Orwell had earlier explained, in Politics and the English Language, the relationship of language and thought is a mutual feedback loop. Thoughts shape language, and
Misogyny: it’s the dirty little secret of the “rainbow” brigade. The gross misogyny so prevalent in gay culture is venerable and well-documented. Even “LGBT” activists like Rose McGowan admit it. So does progressive paper of record, The Guardian. “It is undeniable that there is a virulent strain of misogyny
As the controversy over trans rights trampling women’s rights continues, the media-political left are making their allegiances clear: sorry, girls, you lose. Women — real women — your only option is to shut up and know your place. Independent NSW MP Alex Greenwich has called for an end to the “culture
As J. K. Rowling has drily observed, transgender activists might better persuade us that they’re not a threat to women, by not actually threatening women so often. Like any woman who speaks publicly against transgender ideology, Rowling has been subject to a barrage of death threats, including having her
One of the great manias — and they are many and very manic — of the woke left is banning “conversion practises”. What are “conversion practises”? Don’t bother asking, because the language of such laws as the Ardern government’s are so vague that they could mean anything. But that’s
In what might sound like a modern miracle, two women in an all-women prison have gotten pregnant, even though there were no men present. An incarcerated immaculate conception? Not exactly. The pregnant women, who were not identified, are housed at the embattled Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, in Clinton, which New
In my experience, the more someone vociferously insists that they never tell a lie, the greater the reason to be suspicious. Jacinda Ardern’s assertion that she never told a lie in politics is right up there with Richard Nixon’s declaration that he was not a crook. Yet, we’
