Culture Wars
Not a Code of Conduct but a Mandate of Belief
When a code of conduct stops regulating behaviour and starts enforcing belief, democracy is in danger. Clause 8 turns councillors into compliant subjects of an ideology they never voted for.
Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan
We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.
Backing Woke Math Doesn’t Add Up Amid DEI Rollback
When it comes to math instruction, social justice means stripping it of basic features like numbers. The method, instructors explain, is designed to counter “European ways of knowing and doing.”
The Theater of the Absurd
And you’ll know it’s over in earnest when, just as in Covid, people start changing jerseys and claiming to have played for the other side all along. It’s already starting. And just like Covid, it will be slowly, slowly, then all at once.
Aww, the ‘Wacism’ Cry Isn’t Working Now
After these pricks tried to throw him off the ballot, throw him in jail and then try to kill him (twice), Trump is in full DGAF mode.
The Kids Need to Memorize Tables, Basic Facts and Spelling
Do NZ’s appalling attendance rates reflect parents’ rejection of race-mandated education?
The Treaty Courses Are Just the Tip of the Iceburg
Te ao Māori remains pre-eminent at Auckland University.
We Are a Confused Country
If ethnicity trumps humanity, all we face is a future filled with conflict.
Is This Right-Wing Critical Race Theory?
Critical Race Theory is an example of a left-wing movement that aims to take over institutions and use them to advance a left-wing agenda. (And Critical Race Theorists might make the very same argument in reverse.)
It’s Embedded in the Education of Doctors
The public must pay more attention to this issue since they are the ones who will ultimately pay the price.
The Only Colonisation They Won’t Talk About
Islamic colonisation was every bit as brutal and bloody as European.
The End of Civil Dialogue?
I’m sure I’m not the only one to fear that the tradition of civil dialogue died with Charlie.