In the latest of her Please Explain cartoons, Pauline Hanson tackles the keyboard warriors. As the class tries to enter the room to hold a debate, they’re blocked by three keyboard warriors, who accuse them of hurting their feelings. Hanson ultimately shows the class that they can simply walk
On the surface of it, it surely seems strange that the left are so triggered by the idea of a tech billionaire buying Twitter. I mean, it’s not like Twitter’s founding owner is a billionaire. Or that Facebook is also owned by a billionaires. Or that mainstream media
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A speech prepared for delivery at Massey University, 5 May 2022 Warning Long read. 3405 words. Ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be the third speech in
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Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine
Michael Tracey brownstone.org Michael Tracey is a roving journalist who posts at Substack. It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever tried to explain what “Twitter” is to people, they’d respond with something like, “So
Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan Lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. A six-minute video on the lockdown in Shanghai titled “Voices of April” went viral and sparked a rare showing of large-scale online protests after the Chinese censor handed down a
If you’re worried that Western countries are rapidly establishing a Chinese-style Social Credit System, why, you’re just a nutbag, right-wing conspiracy theorist, and probably racist. Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes that that’s exactly what we’re seeing unfold right in front of us: the
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long Read. 2105 words.
Dr Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. If you are a science
Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion on Thursday, eliciting extreme reactions from some. Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City
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Matt Hampton fee.org Matt Hampton is the Digital Marketing Associate for the Foundation for Economic Education. Tesla CEO Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder on Monday after purchasing 9.2 percent of its stock. Musk’s announcement that he would bring big changes prompted speculation that he would
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1634 words. “Cancel culture”, “callout culture” or “woke politics” – these trends are often accused of reducing political debate and diversity of thought in society. And it’s on university campuses where this is said to occur the most. Yet until now, it hasn’
