You Can’t Ignore the 2nd-Order Effects
New York’s city-run stores promise cheaper groceries, but their discounts merely transfer costs. Taxpayers foot the bill, while bodegas and grocers lose customers.
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A Clash of Rights and What Follows
Different rules for Māori only exacerbate frustrations and add further potential for conflict. There is a lesson here with wider implications that too many seem determined to ignore.
The Popularity of Flounder in Massachusetts
Stuff is a corporate train wreck and nothing Sinead Boucher and her team of executives do or say gives me any confidence whatsoever.
Abolish the Tribunal and Preserve the Treaty
This would preserve the Treaty as our founding document without allowing our constitution to be rewritten by a body that has no democratic mandate.
The NYT Revealed Why Higher Ed Won’t Get Rid of DEI
America’s top universities can’t quit and won’t quit DEI, no matter how unpopular it is with the American people.
Some People Just Want to Go to a Concert
Taken to its logical conclusion, your life gets consumed by things you’re forced to care about and can’t affect anyway. And it’s all at the service of people who’d rather hold you captive than entertain you, or teach your kids, or serve you coffee – the things you’re paying them to do.
When the Columnist Swears for Clicks
If the product is good, you don’t need sweary opinion writers. The swearing is just reason 1,001 not to read Stuff – except to be impressed by just how far it can fall.
Yet Another Reason the Tribunal Must Go
Our children deserve an education system focused on knowledge, excellence, and opportunity – not cultural politics.
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
When you connect the dots between the Tamihere, Davidson, and Maipi families, a deeply troubling picture of modern Māori politics emerges.
The Scapegoats Are Now at the Checkout
What the political rush to punish supermarkets reveals about modern campaigning.
The Graveyard of Eastern European Socialism
These are just a few examples demonstrating the impossibility of constructing a rational economic order based on socialist principles.
This Is a Spiritual War
We are in a spiritual war, which makes it even more obligatory for Christians to ‘man up.’
Do Teenage Boys Really Need to Be Reminded Not to Strangle?
By the time teenagers go to university they are legal adults. If they commit crimes, whether sexual or otherwise, they should be arrested, punished and not released because the Conservatives forgot to increase prison capacity.