Culture
Am Yisrael Chai: Reclaiming Our Identity
To embrace Jewish identity fully (unapologetically and joyfully) is the most powerful response to those who have sought, and still seek, to erase it. Our answer to centuries of erasure is this: Am Yisrael Chai.
Māori Must Take Control
Children need stability, routine, security, and a mother and a father they can rely on. Welfare has robbed too many of these vital necessities. It isn’t the rest of New Zealand, the government, the public service, the Waitangi Tribunal, charities or academics who can fix this problem.
Fanning the Winds of Change
Political parties will follow where public sentiment leads, but that sentiment must first be shaped by individuals willing to challenge the status quo.
What Voicing Anger Really Means
Death threats are admissions of weakness, not demonstrations of strength.
Why We Need to Re-Christianise the West
Christianity is the soul of the West: we abandon it at our societal peril.
What Should We Be Talking About – And Aren’t?
A topic even more inflammatory than gender.
Politics at the Bottom of a Cliff
If all we consume is cynical, shallow and smutty rubbish, our politics will end up mirroring that. But if we’re immersed in heroic stories and finer ideas that ponder on what’s real, right, good and true – we’ll start to demand more from ourselves and our leaders.
Seymour Unbowed by Bill Submissions
The public debate shows the 1840 agreement to be a tangled mess.
The Museum Has Lost the Plot
What the Auckland Museum has done is an insult, a slap in the face to every soldier who gave their life for this country. They deserve solemn respect, not this rainbow-washed PR stunt masquerading as progress.
