The Marxist-left is winning the battle of ideas and emotion at a great economic cost to Western countries, says former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. In a warning to centre-right political leaders around the world, Mr. Abbott said neo-Marxists were successfully prosecuting the climate change agenda and “culture wars” which includes current debates over gender…

Commentary Over the course of our lifetime we have been speeding toward one of the most dysfunctional and hopeless episodes in modern history. According to Catholic scholar Rusty Reno, our present condition wasn’t just brought on by misguided ideologies. In the June/July edition of First Things Magazine, Reno said we are suffering from a “general…

While political correctness may disguise as a form of politeness and civility, it’s a type of language control and groupthink now dominating the Western world, an Australian educator and commentator Kevin Donneally argues in his latest book “The Dictionary of Woke”, published in September. Donneally, one of Australia’s leading conservative public intellectuals, said that political…

Commentary Universities, as a result of the 60s and 70s cultural revolution and the decision by the cultural left to take the long march through the institutions, have especially been affected by politically correct ideology and wokeness. Such is the dominance of neo-Marxist and postmodern-inspired ideology that left-of-centre academics in a range of subjects dominate…

Commentary For the last few weeks in Australia, we’ve been treated to the unabashed celebration from our biased media about the ousting of the Coalition and wild assertions that this was all due to angry women turning on Scott Morrison. No mention, of course, of the fact that conservative parties everywhere are now struggling to…

Wokal Distance, an expert in postmodernism and critical theory, explained how the influences of these two ideologies created the “woke” mindset that is behind the attempt to cancel Joe Rogan. The woke believe they are justified to take anything someone says or does out of context, and criticize and shame them for it, he said. “When Joe Rogan says, ‘But…

Commentary Social engineering movements appear to have increased in number and intensity during 2021. It is useful, for intellectual and strategic purposes, to ascertain whether there is a common theme that links these movements and explains the growing anxiety about their impact on a person’s expectation to be rewarded on the ground of his or…

Derek Sloan says there are pluses and minuses to being an independent MP, but on the whole he has accomplished much more sitting as an independent than when he was part of a political party. “We’ve been able to vote against certain legislation that no one else was willing to. We’ve been able to ask…

Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) activist agenda and its influence on language, culture, and institutions carry significant risks and pose significant dangers to Australian society, an expert says. Director Peter Kurti from the Centre for Independent Studies and author of a new paper, Cancelling the Culture: Critical Theory and the Chasm of Incoherence (pdf), explains the…

Commentary Did you know that all of the evil in the world was brought about by Western imperialism and colonialism? That is the message of “postcolonial theory,” the dominant narrative in university social sciences, humanities, and education. Canada in particular is a “colonial settler” society living on land stolen from First Nations. But students are…