Nicholas Fondacaro Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. After graduating, he interned
Joe Perry Georgia State University In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the world-liberator on the cross”
Joan Fitzpatrick Loughborough University Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes and apple sauce accompanied by sage and onion stuffing and followed
Ryan McMaken Ryan McMaken is executive editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public policy, finance, and international relations from
William Keylor Boston University The Christmas Truce is no stranger to popular entertainment – 2014 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 in
A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com In a recent series, I discussed the how unsafe and ineffective the SSRI antidepressants are and how the immense amount of money made from selling depression (and its indefinite “treatment”) to everyone caused effective cures treatments for depression to become almost completely forgotten. One of
Mary Margaret Olohan Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ She previously reported for The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire, where she covered national politics as well as social and cultural issues. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an
John Klar libertynation.com The WHO (World Health Organization) took center stage during the Covid pandemic as the global coordinator of effective response. Questions about the organization’s proper role – and competence – preceded and now survive the Covid crisis. Was the WHO effective and apolitical in its response, and can
Kate Burridge Howard Manns Monash University Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. Howard Manns
familyfirst.org.nz Gender-affirming treatments (aka sex-change treatments) include a range of controversial medical interventions “designed to affirm an individual’s gender identity” when it conflicts with their biological sex at birth. These interventions include puberty blockers, hormone replacement, and surgical procedures. Most treatments given to teens are
Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com Hands
Jane Kelsey University of Auckland As part of its coalition deal with National, the ACT Party is preparing to resurrect its “regulatory responsibility” legislation for the fourth time. This is despite the idea having been consistently rejected since 2007. As ACT’s coalition partners decide whether to allow its Regulatory
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Commentators are still evaluating Nicola Willis’ mini-budget and the opening of the Treasury books. Most provocatively, Herald columnist Matthew
Harry Palmer The Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments makes it obvious that marriage is between a man and a woman. And it even has a go at cross dressing and transvestitism in Deuteronomy 22:5: “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a
Mathew Otieno Mathew Otieno is a Kenyan writer, blogger and dilettante farmer. Until 2022, he was a research communications coordinator at a university in Nairobi, Kenya. He now lives in rural western Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, from where he’s pursuing a career as a full-time
