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The Last of the Few

The Last of the Few

This level of firsthand detail brought a personal touch to the incredible story of the Battle of Britain.

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The Greatest Human Failings

The Greatest Human Failings

Overy concluded that if warfare has a very long human history, it also has a future. If that’s true, then if the wasted application of so much human resources into warfare technology continues then humanity may itself prove to have no future.

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The Bronze Age Mindset

The Bronze Age Mindset

There is no positive view of family, although he begrudgingly admits having one is necessary to continue the species. He believes this is the death of a man. I disagree. Family drives men to greatness, but Bronze Age Mindset doesn’t make that leap.

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What Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius

What Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. Emperor of Rome from 161–180 AD, Marcus Aurelius is remembered as the “Philosopher King,” largely because of his classic work Meditations, a cornerstone of Stoic philosophy that delves into such themes

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The Heroic Nurses in Horrible Hospitals

Bruce W Davidson Bruce Davidson is professor of humanities at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan. Even those who already know a lot about the recent man-made medical disaster may be shocked by the raw, firsthand accounts in this book of the horrors perpetrated at many American, British, and Canadian

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Ans Westra – A Life in Photography

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When I was a schoolboy, few of our teachers, or anyone else, had ever been to university. Anyone with a degree was looked upon with awe. Sixty years later it seems everyone goes to university, largely thanks to the commercialisation of universities, now cluttered with

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Is Digital Technology Responsible for Anxious Children?

Margaret Hickey Margaret Hickey is a regular contributor to Position Papers and Mercator. She is a mother of three and lives with her husband in Blarney. mercatornet.com The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt | Allen Lane, 2024,

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Book Review: The British Empire, A Force For Good

The British Empire, A Force For Good. By John McLean, Tross Publications. Reviewed by Crispin Caldicott This tome represents not just a labour of love, but at nearly 600 pages a massive piece of scholarship. 101 of the territories that made up the British Empire are investigated for their fortunes,

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Book Review: Who Really Broke The Treaty?

Title: Who Really Broke The Treaty? Author: John Robinson Genre: New Zealand History Publication Date: May 2024 Review by: Andy Oakley Author of ‘Once We Were One, the Fraud of Modern Separatism’, and ‘Cannons Creek to Waitangi, Te Pakeha’s Claim for Equality’ . In his latest book, prolific author John

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