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Well, here we are.   Approaching two months since Russian forces moved into Ukraine with no resolution currently in sight.   Indeed, the opposite is true with the west, led by the United States, feeding vast quantities of weapons into the Ukrainian military. Have you noticed how muted the calls for a ceasefire are in our media?  …

The Very Voice of God Released in 1984 and based on the play by Peter Shaffer, Miloš Forman’s magnificent film Amadeus tells the fictional stories of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri where Salieri as an old man claims to have murdered Mozart. During his confession to a priest in a mental asylum, Salieri…

I watched, reluctantly, the first “debate” between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and this is what I now find out from the papers: Undecided voters give win to Anthony Albanese after leaders’ debate. This was the final tally: Of the 100 undecided voters at the debate, 40 per cent gave the debate…

My War: How I got irony in the infantry, Paul Fussell, Harper’s What I Said at Harvard: What’s Wrong with the Proposition: “Return to the Founders to Save America”, Patrick Deneen, The Postliberal Order Scissors, Paste, and Aquinas, Pat Smith, Ius & Iustitium The Logic of Lockdowns Leads to Shanghai, Alex Gutentag, Compact New Model…

The Holocaust Given current events in Europe it is well worth remembering that the defining event of the last hundred years was probably the Holocaust. Man’s inhumanity to man reached its zenith with the wholesale genocide of European Jews during World War II in which the Nazis systemically murdered some six million Jews, in addition…