Category Archives: Politics

Ranking Australia’s Prime Ministers in the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy

Posted on April 25, 2020 by JC

This is my attempt to rank the last seven male Prime Ministers of Australia according to the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy (SSH). I have briefly referred to the SSH before here but an excellent overview can be found in the video I … Continue reading →

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The Artificial Winter

Posted on April 11, 2020 by JC

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them, there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore … Continue reading →

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What’s Worse for Marriage?

Posted on April 4, 2020 by JC

The contradiction in terms known as “same-sex marriage” was brought into law in Australia on the 9th of December, 2017. This came into law after close to two decades of  activism and after multiple parliaments having already rejected it. There … Continue reading →

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New Thinking and Old Thinking

Posted on February 9, 2020 by JC

I was reading Edward Feser’s post from his irregular series “Adventures in Old Atheism” the other day as well as re-reading A Song for Nagasaki by Fr. Paul Glynn. Both of these readings together got me thinking about exploitation of … Continue reading →

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Class in a Classless Society

Posted on September 30, 2019 by JC

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg Atlantic Books, November 2nd, 2017 (first published in 2016) I read a review of this book in Quadrant Magazine last year and was immediately interested in the subject … Continue reading →

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The Lion King: A Subversive Masterpiece

Posted on July 8, 2019 by JC

I always have a number of topics/ideas in drafts and this is one I’ve probably had for the longest time. I usually get around to them eventually and the fact that this has now been written is proof of that. … Continue reading →

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Captain Catholic or Captain Compromise?

Posted on June 23, 2019 by JC

Battlelines by Tony AbbottMelbourne University Press, June 1st, 2013 (first published in 2009) Not being good at being relevant, I decided not only to read but also review this book a decade after it was first published. This is after … Continue reading →

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Coming Home

Posted on March 24, 2019 by JC

It has been almost a year since I returned to live in Australia after close to ten years abroad. In coming back to Australia I find myself feeling somewhat like Odysseus arriving home after his eventful journey from Troy. I … Continue reading →

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Political Theatre and the Supernatural

Posted on January 27, 2019 by JC

More than ten years ago while in the United States, I went on what I believe was called an “experiential learning trip” with a group of college students through famous areas of the civil rights area. This included places like … Continue reading →

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Known Knowns & Unknown Knowns

Posted on January 11, 2019 by JC

The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion by Peter Hitchens I.B. Tauris, August 30th, 2018 Peter Hitchens has described himself as the obituarist for Britain in some interviews with him I have viewed online. This was particularly true with … Continue reading →

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