What is the future of mifepristone? The Supreme Court may be forced into making another tough decision. The drug mifepristone is currently responsible for more than half of all abortions in the United States. Now its legality is in doubt after two judges in different courts issued completely different rulings, both on April 7. The […]
A combination of publish-or-perish pressure on scientists, desire for click-bait headlines on the part of the media, and a poorly-informed public may explain the hysteria. Say the phrase “climate change” to a certain class of generally well-educated and well-placed people, and you will hear how it is the most significant existential threat to humanity, how […]
Regardless of its shortcomings, Desmond deserves much credit for telling harsh truths about the lives of the least fortunate members of society. Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond. Crown. 2023. 304 pages Published to much acclaim in March, Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America focuses on one of the most distinctive aspects of American life: abnormally severe poverty […]
Layla Jane is suing doctors who “fixed” her gender dysphoria. American children whose lives were ruined by gender-affirmative medication and surgery are resorting to litigation to seek justice. The latest case to surface in the media is a 18-year-old Californian woman known as Layla Jane, who is suing doctors at Kaiser Permanente, a huge American […]
Earth4All is an environmentalist public policy group that is an offshoot of The Club of Rome. In layman’s terms it is a strident “environmentalist” lobby. Earth4All describes itself as “a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates convened by The Club of Rome, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Norwegian Business School.” It […]
President Joe Biden has issued an official proclamation establishing March 31 as a holiday to be known as “Transgender Day of Visibility”. His declaration comes at the end of a conspicuously visible week for transgender activists. Transgender Day of Visibility. pic.twitter.com/TrOykptgDN — Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) April 2, 2023 It all began last Saturday, when women’s […]
What can explain the demonic explosion of hatred? What was in the head of the 28-year-old who meticulously planned a rampage in her old school? What inspired her to stockpile guns and barge into a school and kill three nine-year-olds and three adults? What rage? What darkness? What sickness? That’s the question everyone is asking about Audrey […]
Inclusion is the virtue of our time and all literature making the path to inclusion a bumpy one must be bulldozed. In the last month, three news stories out of Britain have seized the attention of book lovers. First, with the approval of the Roald Dahl Story Company, holder of the rights to the late […]
President Joe Biden is so concerned about the future of American children that he inserted a mandate for affordable child care into a major bill authorising subsidies for vital semiconductor manufacturers. “Lack of childcare is a significant barrier to labor force participation,” tweeted economist Joseph Stiglitz. Policies like these have the potential to increase the pool of available […]
With over $1 trillion of bank deposits currently uninsured, the banking crisis is far from over. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed – so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time. The failures at SVB […]
Three case studies from Canada and Australia about suppression of heterodox opinions in universities. Two thousand five hundred years ago the Greek playwright Aeschylus is reputed to have said “the first victim of war is truth.” Recent events in the academic world have demonstrated that truth is also a casualty when ideology and commercial interests […]
There is hope for the United States Congress. Finally. It had to happen. At long last, there is a group in the United States Congress devoted exclusively to the welfare of the American family. On Tuesday, March 7, Representatives Mary Miller of Illinois, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, and Brian Babin of Texas officially launched the Congressional Family Caucus. This is an […]
This will be the first policy initiative of its kind in Australia. The New South Wales state election is just around the corner and the major parties are putting forward their final pitches to the voters. Last weekend the Liberal party, currently in government and led by Premier Dominic Perrottet, launched its big family-friendly policy, […]
‘Western civ’ has become a term of reproach at many famous universities. The dust jacket of John Agresto’s new book, The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It, depicts Gore Hall at Harvard in the 1870s. Perhaps this is a subtle indication of what lies within: Gore Hall, […]
I work in a large European multinational. One day last year I opened an email from the employee advocacy department. Attached was a PDF with a page dedicated to “my gender, my pride”. It explained “the road to LGBT normalization” and advertised the organizational “pride activities”. This propaganda was not my cup of tea. I […]