Haley Kynefin Haley Kynefin is a writer and independent social theorist with a background in behavioral psychology. She left academia to pursue her own path integrating the analytical, the artistic and the realm of myth. Her work explores the history and sociocultural dynamics of power. brownstone.org Welcome to The
Melanie Williams Professor of Film and Television Studies University of East Anglia Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth
David Nabhan David Nabhan is a science columnist (Newsmax, Times of Israel) and a science fiction writer. Website: www.earthquakepredictors.com Science fiction, in many ways, seeds science. There’s no better example than Lucian’s Verae Historiae, a second-century tale of travel to the Moon eighteen hundred years before
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Tough Crowd: How I
It’s a commonplace that C. S. Lewis’ Narnia stories “are a Christian allegory”. Which, at a cursory glance, most of us assume even as children. Once the penny drops that Aslan is Jesus, it all seems to fall into place. The idea of Narnia-as-allegory has such wide currency that
Jane O’Connor Birmingham City University theconversation.com Britney Spears’ new memoir, The Woman in Me, illustrates once again the potential lifelong damage that can be caused by being a child star. Like many before her, including Judy Garland and Michael Jackson, Spears was ushered into the dangerous terrain of
bobmccoskrie.com Britney Spears has revealed she had an abortion while she was dating Justin Timberlake. But contrary to the narrative that the media and the pro-abortion lobby push, this wasn’t a good thing. It wasn’t ‘a good day’ – ironically – and her experience exposes a number of myths
T. K. Coleman T.K. Coleman is the Education Director at FEE and a co-host for The Minimalists Podcast. fee.org In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a classic children’s story by C.S. Lewis, a group of children inadvertently discover a magical realm called “Narnia” hidden
In 1984, Orwell wrote that “children nowadays were horrible”. He was referring, of course, to authoritarian regimes’ obsession with recruiting children as early as possible. The Hitler Youth, for instance, or the Young Pioneers. The Soviets had their cult of Pavlik Morozov, the “brave, young hero” who denounced his kulak
David Gordon David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx. He is also editor of
The fix result is in! The three lucky winners of the Win a Book Some Guy Scribbled In (better known as Shouting Across the Ditch, the first collected writings of Lushington D. Brady) competition have been decided. Using a mix of trans-Tasman rivalry, a game of eenie-meenie-minie-mo, and the scientific
A Fascist with manners” Martin Hirst, editor, author, journalist and journalism educator Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. As Australian Correspondent for Canon Media Award-winning blog, Whaleoil, then the website The BFD, Lushington Brady has informed, entertained and infuriated New Zealand readers. Now, his first collection of columns,
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most influential person in my life was a school-teacher, Guy Bliss, who back in 1956 preached to the school’s first 6th form (about 6 of us in his history class (the rest had fled at 15, then the school leaving age, mainly for factory
Josie Pagani Political Commentator commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room Puffin – the jolly-sounding publishers of Roald Dahl, recently teamed up with the less jolly inclusive minds, to update Dahl’s books for children. ‘Keeping them relevant for a modern audience,’ they said. Well, sounds innocuous.
On Friday and Saturday, I assisted the Rebel News team with the New Zealand book launch of Avi Yemini’s new book, Rebel From the Start. For those who missed the Auckland and Wellington events, I have permission from Patrick Lim to use his footage of the Wellington event so
