A RECKONING When a generation startsto tiptoe awayalmost imperceptibly,one misses the presenceof old friends one didn’t seevery often, and that, too,is sad. A reckoning is due. I should have saidHow glad I was of you.     THERE’LL COME A DAY There’ll come a day when I’d giveanything to see you standing therein the kitchen, head  bent over,jotting down something to remember,happy because…

JUST A THOUGHT … What if it turned out that traditional Christian morality is the template for “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”? John Stuart Mill’s formula offered as a rational substitute for the “unfounded” superstitious dogmas of received religion is in fact impossible of rational application to the chaos (as in “chaos” theory) of human society, where none can trace with…

While the Queensland and Victorian governments are planning to ban counselling that would assist gender-confused people to accept their biological sexual identity, in Britain, a landmark case is being taken against the UK National Health Service (NHS) prescribing “experimental” puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.   Queensland and Victoria are conducting inquiries into legislation to criminalise so-called “conversion therapy”, cautious therapeutic alternatives to “gender…

      FROM FIRE, BY WATER: My Journey to the Catholic Faith   by Sohrab Ahmari   Ignatius Press, San Francisco   Hardback: 240 pages   Price: AUD$45.95   Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel   As a convert to Catholicism myself, I never cease to be intrigued by conversion stories.   Despite a massive decline in the number of people who identify…

      HOW TO KEEP FROM LOSING YOUR MIND: Educating Yourself Classically to Survive Cultural Indoctrination   by Deal W. Hudson   TAN Books, Charlotte, NC Hardcover: 384 pages   Price: AUD$55.95   Reviewed by John Young   When Deal W. Hudson was a 17-year-old high-school student in Fort Worth, Texas, a conversation he had with the school janitor set him thinking…

BBC MISLEADING ABOUT MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIER The Global Warming Policy Forum has criticised the BBC for misleading the public about the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. In its numerous reports online, on radio and on television, the BBC has blamed the melting of this Antarctic glacier on climate change. However, the BBC’s reports do not mention an important fact that has been widely…