Culture
This Is a Shame, National and Luxon
Their dismissal of the will of their voters will come back to haunt them. We will not forget.

Why Would We Believe UFO Nuts Like This?
Bad arguments don’t make up for a lack of evidence.
This Creep of Cultural Apartheid
The demands by tribal leaders for New Zealanders to kowtow to their racist agenda have now spread throughout the country. It is socially destructive and cancerous. We must not let the bullies win.

Big Law Firms Face Legal Reckoning Over Race Preferences
Title VII makes it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race. But many firms’ efforts to ‘increase diversity’ did exactly that.
Progressive Christianity: A Different Faith Altogether
Progressive Christianity seems to reinterpret Christian teaching to conform with modern society. This sets Progressive Christianity on a collision course with Conservative Christianity.
How Gaming Can Save Civilisation
These masculine characteristics lead to expressions of nationalism and patriotism. Perhaps it is for these reasons that the military is now using games as a recruiting tool. It seems as if gaming may be part of the push back in the culture war and the fight to save our civilisation.

The One Time of the Year in Japan
A culture where flower viewing is a national pastime is pretty damn civilised.
The Post-lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
There seems to be no stopping the counterrevolution at this point, as the spat upon and disrespected middle voice of cultural normalization claws its way back from humiliation back into the mainstream of cultural experience.

Christopher Theseus and His Indian Ship of State
If the mast on New Zealand’s ship of state breaks and must be replaced with an Indian mast, how soon before the entire ship becomes an Indian ship?
The Bogus Promise of Kindness
The attack on the Let Women Speak attendees in the name of trans rights was a glimpse of the “the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’.”
Bring back the hard stick
More and more I’m gravitating to the view that perhaps those countries that use the rattan cane as a form of punishment might well be on the right track.
We Must Eliminate Woke in NZ
National needs to take stock of why Labour failed, if it is to avoid the same fate. And they need to do this quickly – before their credibility is sucked into a vortex from which Christopher Luxon will find it difficult to recover.
You Cannot Stop People From Asking Questions
What Dame Anne is engaging in is what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls ‘bullshit’. This is where intellectuals and policy makers, who have no good answers to valid questions from regular people, essentially resort to using jargon to sidestep the matter.