New Catallaxy

I know, I might have mentioned it once or twice before. We have no decent mainstream newspaper in Australia. The Australian is the best of a bad lot, having to do very little to scale to the top of the pile (of leftist mediocrity). The biased vindictive coverage of Trump said it all really. But…

Kurt Hofer at The American Conservative reflects on his attendance at the Restoring the Nation conference and on the fortunes of the New Right. Over at UnHerd, Thomas Fazi considers whether Germany and thereby Europe itself is also a target of the economic warfare that has broken out since the Russo-Ukrainian War began. Niccolo Soldo,…

“Come now, he says, pressing a little with his hands. I’m interested in your opinion. You’re intelligent enough, you must have an opinion. About what? I say. What we’ve done, he says. How things have worked out. I hold myself very still. I try to empty my mind. I think about the sky, at night,…

We are constantly wondering about the inability of centre-right parties, particularly the Liberal and National parties here in Australia, of accurately reflecting their constituency in their policies and representing them during their terms in power. I don’t want to speculate why this is the case but the following two figures from the US and UK…

A Christian minister condemns same-sex sex and abortion as being sinful. Cue outrage. Bigoted and hateful says the supposed Catholic Premier of Victoria. “I send my kids to Catholic schools. My faith is important to me. It guides me every day…It also guides me in my sense of what is right and what is wrong,…