In the week since one of Japan’s 31 nuclear reactors was seriously damaged by the Sendai earthquake and subsequent tsunami, hours of TV news and current affairs, acres of newspaper and gallons of printers’ ink have been used to warn of the imminent catastrophe in the Fukushima nuclear reactor. In fact, the…
RADICAL-IN-CHIEF: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism by Stanley Kurtz (New York: Threshold Editions) Hardcover: 485 pages ISBN: 9781439155080 RRP: AUD$53.95 Reviewed by Mervyn F. Bendle The remarkable ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States has provoked a great deal of research and reflection by sceptical commentators…
One night back in the early seventies, when on duty as a medic while doing National Service, I was looking for something to read. In that cross between a regimental aid post and a military hospital, no-one ever read anything except motor catalogues or trashy magazines; but I discovered an obscure library shelf for patients,…
America’s political left have unjustly blamed Sarah Palin for many things, but there’s one thing for which she is probably responsible: making feminism the hot topic that it has become today. Every couple of years Time and Newsweek ask “Is feminism dead?”, but all of a sudden feminism is being discussed and debated in the…