Dr Kevin Donnelly is a senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University and author of A Politically Correct Dictionary and Guide (available at kevindonnelly.com.au)
WHILE those committed to extreme forms of secularism argue that religion, especially Christianity, must be abolished, it’s ironic that they adopt many of the...
IT’S hard to believe the same lockdown-enforcing Michael Gove, peddler of China virus alarmism, acting like a Third World dictator repressing liberty and freedom, is...
WHEN it comes to neo-Marxist inspired cancel culture, rationality and reason fly out of the window to be replaced by politically correct ideology and...
SINCE George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May and the global emergence of the neo-Marxist inspired Black Lives Matter movement, gestures such as ‘taking...
JUST when you thought radical cultural-Left ideology and political correctness could get no worse, along comes its most recent manifestation – critical race theory.
In...
KARL Popper’s The Open Society and Enemies, published in 1945, should be compulsory reading for those concerned about the existential dangers faced by democracy represented by...
THE Black Papers were a series of pamphlets attacking the excesses of ‘progressive’ and comprehensive education in Britain, first published from 1969 to 1977 in the Critical...
Trigger warning: the following contains words and descriptions that will offend people of colour, feminists and other assorted woke victims of Western supremacy and capitalist...
JUSTIFYING the decision to prioritise authors of colour when shortlisting works for the Booker Prize, one of the judges, Margaret Busby, argues: ‘Each of...
JUST when you thought identity politics could not get any more bizarre, along comes the Oscars affirmative action policy. To contend for Best Picture, producers...
THE attacks on new UK trade envoy Tony Abbott, in Britain and Australia, illustrate how hypocritical and two-faced cultural-Left activists are and how reality...
The writer is Australian.
THERE’S no doubt that as a result of the Covid-19 virus and its debilitating and destructive effect on societies across the...
