The New Goldberg Variations By Joe Chindamo and Zoe Black Alfi Records $13.99   Reviewed by David James   At first glance, the Baroque aesthetic and Post-modernist aesthetic would seem to be deeply opposed. The Baroque world was based on the certainty of a divine order, which became the solid basis for a level of ornateness and organization that has rarely been matched.…

More to Mannix Sir, Colin Jory’s review of Brenda Niall’s Mannix omits to ask why she interviewed two laicised priests, but not Cardinal Pell, about Archbishop Mannix’s life or why no reference was made to the Cardinal’s panegyric at the funeral Mass for Bob Santamaria. It would have been interesting to know what Mannix would have made of a number of key Movement…

  MASS FLOURISHING: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund Phelps   (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey) Paperback: 378 pages ISBN: 9780691165790 Price: AUD$48.95   Reviewed by David James   There is something faintly amusing about an economist, in this case a Nobel Prize winning economist, discovering that human beings are actually at the centre of all economic activity.…

  AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE by David Archibald   (Connor Court, Ballarat, 2015) Paperback: 258 pages ISBN: 9781925138849 AUD$29.95   Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch   Since its foundation, the publishing house of Connor Court has built up an excellent stable of writers, many of whom would otherwise be condemned to totenschweigtaktic (death by silence) by the left-dominated literary industry. Australia’s Defence by David Archibald…

Publicly the person who set up the Safe Schools Coalition program says it’s to stop bullying and suicides, but she told a Marxism conference it was part of a wider Marxist strategy to radically change society. Listen to the podcast. Roz Ward, from La Trobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, told the Melbourne 2015 Marxism Conference, “In 2010 ……