Issue 2022 January 22
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The crucial question: Have voters tired of the Coalition?
As the political year cranks into gear, the only question that matters is whether Scott Morrison can pull off a second miracle election win in 2022 that in many ways is even more daunting than his first miracle win. A redistribution that has favoured Labor, a raft of retiring MPs, empowered state governments conspiring against the Federal Government, a national broadcaster and a…
Film Review – Encanto: The gift of family is magic enough
Disney’s Encanto is an enchanting exploration of family, expectations, and the fear that lies beneath the desire for perfection. A vibrant and dynamic animated musical, Encanto is an incredible film about an incredible family encompassing the richness of the Disney worldview – its hope for humanity’s best nature with a keen awareness of the flaws walking with it.The Madrigals are a magical family.…
Augusto Del Noce and the triumph of the bourgeois
As B.A. Santamaria explained in his 1973 paper, Philosophies in Collision, the Western world could have gone in any of three directions after the 1960s. The Western world could have been revived by its Judeo-Christian ideals, with their foundations in the transcendent, or it could have degenerated into quasi-Marxist totalitarian states, or it could have mutated into a world based on radical individualism…

