Dorothy Parker famously said that “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”. By which she meant that, while physical beauty might be on the surface only, a person that is an ugly, unpleasant miserable human being is that way all the way through. As we’
We live, as Orwell might have said, in a time of universal deceit. We live surrounded by lies about everything from race to climate. In keeping with Goebbels’s dictum, the biggest lies are the most fervently believed by a great many people. One of the Big Lies of modern
Simon Sarevski fee.org Simon Sarevski is a research assistant at the Austrian Economics Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in financial management from Ss. Cyril and Methodius and is involved with European Students for Liberty. In ancient Greece Plato could be found advocating women’s rights, arguing that
Like it or not, Margaret Thatcher must surely rank as one of the most successful women in modern political history. With 11 years in office, Thatcher was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. But beyond that, she fundamentally reshaped politics in the Western world for decades. When
While the Canberra bubble has spent the last few weeks whipping itself into a self-righteous feminist fury about a bunch of gay men jacking off at work and a dodgy, decades-old rape allegation, a group of Aboriginal women travelled to Parliament to campaign for justice for a raped and murdered
It’s been said that Tolkien’s ents are a gentle poke at the academic circles of Oxford and Cambridge with which he was so familiar: a cloistered bunch of fussy old bachelors endlessly ruminating. It might have been thought that that particular academic milieu was long past. But, reading
Once upon a time, children were sent to school to learn to read, write and master maths. Not any more. While parents still view the purpose of schooling as basic education, teachers and academics think they know better. Nowadays, children spend more time at school learning about 57 imaginary genders
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor. Kerry has a B.A. in
My parents’ generation endured Depression, World War and the existential threat of communism. They never complained about it – or about much of anything. Today’s generation are the safest and richest in human history – and they complain about everything. I guess when you’ve never really endured real hardship, the
Way back in the 90s, Katie Roiphe was rudely booted out of the feminist sisterhood for having the temerity to point out that Third Wave feminists had more in common with Victorian-era misogynists and that women were perfectly-capable grown adults. A quarter-century later, what has changed? Well, it’s got
The definition of insanity, it is said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. On that score, the Australian media can be forgiven their periodic pack-hunts because until now, depending on how Attorney-General Christian Porter’s defamation case against the ABC goes, they’ve not
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com I don’t know much about this guy Piers Morgan. His face is recognisable from a British talent show I watched for maybe a season? I live in New Zealand and don’t follow social media – or barely – so am unfamiliar with his views. Verity
If we were to believe the hysterical claims of Western feminists, the streets of Australia are as hazardous for women as the battlefields of the Congo. The “one in four women will be raped” trope is as blatant nonsense as BLM’s fact-free hysteria over police shootings. Like BLM’s
Amidst all the palaver and virtue-signalling in the media, and the strangely contradictory cavalcade of back-slapping and pearl-clutching whining of International Women’s Day, there is one group of Australian women who go almost completely ignored by the great and good of the Lady Pages and Mummy Bloggers. While we’
Perhaps the oddest thing about woke-ism is just how many feminists choose to ally themselves with a movement that embraces what are easily the two most misogynist ideologies going. Woke-ism’s fetishisation of Islam is weird enough. An ultra-conservative religion characterised by legions of brutally intolerant followers who violently abhor
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
