William Keylor Boston University The Christmas Truce is no stranger to popular entertainment – this year more than any other as its 100th anniversary is marked. The famous moment when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches in peace on Christmas Day 1914 has been replicated and ruminated upon
Thomas Adam University of Arkansas Thomas Adam, PhD, is an associate professor of international and global studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arkansas. He also serves as associate director of the International and Global Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. Each season, the celebration
bicom.org.uk What happened: Mansour Abbas, the leader of the United Arab List (UAL), spoke on the 21st of December this week at the Globes Business Conference. He was interviewed on stage by Muhammad Majdala, from Channel 12 News. * He was asked: “Israel is a state without a constitution
Admin wokejoke.nz Information Satire A new Government Department has recently been set up to address ‘gaps’ identified by the Ardern Government in the way the country is run. Called “The Ministry for Everything That Does Not Already Have a Ministry (Except of Course for Men)” and led by James
William Norman Grigg (1963-2017) was Managing Editor of the Libertarian Institute and an award-winning investigative journalist and author. He was the author of five books, most recently Liberty in Eclipse: The War on Terror and the Rise of the Homeland Security State. Mr. Grigg wrote and published the
Martin Lally On the 23rd of July of this year, seven professors of the University of Auckland penned a letter to the Listener asserting that Matauranga Maori was not science. Professor Joanna Kidman of Victoria University was the first to sound the alarm and went straight to the heart of
Nobody Interesting As someone who has clocked up over 300,000 km in diesel 4×4 utes, it pains me to note that I now drive an electric vehicle. There was only limited choice in this transition, as the EV-as-company-policy came with the new job. A ute
Fion Waisum Ma University of Birmingham Fion Waisum Ma is a palaeobiology PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, specializing in the feeding mechanics of oviraptorosaurs and their close relatives. After getting a BSc in Geology and Ecology & Biodiversity at The University of Hong Kong, she completed a Palaeontology
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. 2021 was a strange year for the film industry. Covid-19 closed the theatres for many months; a number of movies appeared first on streaming services like Amazon and Netflix. We’ve selected a dozen of the year’s
Jayanta Bhattacharya brownstone.org Jay Bhattacharya, Senior Scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. The
Andrei Lux Edith Cowan University Andrei Alexander Lux is a Lecturer in Leadership and Course Coordinator of Management and International Business at the School of Business and Law in Edith Cowan University. Andrei’s research focuses on Leadership and Organizational Behavior, with interests in positive follower outcomes such as Engagement,
Rob Slane theblogmire.com We are accustomed to thinking of great evil as instantly recognisable. From Nuremberg rallies to the squalor of the Gulag, great evil is something obvious and unmissable. Or so we think. Unfortunately, we have developed such a cartoonish idea of what evil, villains, and devils look
Manly D. Hall Information Opinion In times of immense social pressure, where conformity is valued and thinkers are banished, there is no better source to turn to than the towering essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His writing always struck me as cutting to the heart of human weakness: the tendency
Darroch Ball Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “Official information data shows Corrections Head Office numbers and salaries have ballooned since 2017 while the frontline is still fighting for a pay rise and battling staff shortages,” says Darroch Ball Leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “The total number employed by Corrections Head
Eric Smalley The Conversation Eric has over 30 years of experience as a science and technology reporter and editor. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, CNet, Discover, Nature, Science, Scientific American, and Wired. Eric co-founded and edited Technology Research News, a weekly online news publication that covered
