The Rise of the Meme Disease
These meme diseases turned out to be phantoms that mysteriously disappeared. These conditions also represented examples of the treatment being much worse than the purported disease.
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Your Writing May Be an Indication of Alzheimer’s Disease
The new research may not be relevant for younger generations.
The Rewriting of Animal Farm
A new animated ‘Animal Farm’ transforms Orwell’s anti-authoritarian satire into an anti-capitalist fable, ideologically inverting its original warning.
Is Whānau Ora Lifting Student Attendance?
Outcomes are expressed in terms of number of engagements and the odd case study, alongside broad-based expressions of improved lives and expectations. This type of ongoing reporting was obviously insufficient to satisfy the new government post 2023.
We Should Pity the Young
The category conspicuously absent from Woke’s hierarchy of victimhood.
The Phillips Case Should Not Drive Home-School Legislation
Home education communities deserve better than to be caught in the crossfire of a government seeking a visible policy response to a tragedy it contributed to.
To Draw a Line
The proposal is, at its core, an attempt to answer a question that sounds simple but is not: what should professional regulation actually be for? Personal beliefs should be of no interest to the regulators.
A Plea: Wake Up, America
Socialism’s “soft boil” is leading straight to communism’s darkness.
How To Lose Billions of Dollars: Trust the US Government
Add it up and you get roughly $64 billion of real capital that was incinerated in less than a year.
Stanford Has Been Accused of ‘Undemocratic’ Conduct
Homeschooling laws reportedly added after select committee process.
I Just Saw Something the West Has Largely Forgotten
On 17 May 2026 – America’s 250th anniversary – I found myself in a small Texas town called Celina, witnessing something profound... that I hadn’t seen in a long time.
This Universalism Has an Asterisk
For Helen Clark and much of the international activist class, universal values increasingly appear to come with one glaring exception: the Jewish state.
We Should Be Prepared
The fraying of the international rules-based order and various conflicts – either happening now or possible in the future – should see New Zealand preparing now. There are no excuses for inaction.