Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the editor at large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly
It’s quite often said that people got rid of their records and bought CDs, now they’re getting rid of their CDs and buying records. I never did either. I kept all my records and bought CDs. In fact, I bought a bunch of records at bargain prices when
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, “Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science” exposes how the insane and murderous abuses of science perpetrated
Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com For reasons I can’t fully explain, there was very muted reporting of the Court of Appeal
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com You would think that at this time, the Public Service Commission would be concerned about jobs being lost and redundancies and all that sort of important and urgent stuff. But nope – the focus is on counselling, safe spaces and indoctrination for incorrect use of personal pronouns.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week I was shown a copy of the Listener from last year. The reason was a four page article in it on a Korean based Kiwi, Adam Ballin, who along with two colleagues has apparently built a very successful international renewable energy business and
It’s not for nothing that social media has been dubbed “the Big Tobacco of the 21st century”. Like Philip Morris and Rothmans in the ’50s and ’60s, companies like Meta have done their internal research and know how harmful their products are. Especially to teens. Yet that’s just
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com I’m not sure that it’s much comfort to anyone to know that the post-Covid surge in violent crimes, gang activity, ram raids, random shootings, thuggery and stabbings is occurring in other countries as well as New Zealand. These days, wagging school, out-of-control welfare and
As AC/DC famously said, “It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna rock’n’roll”. Getting had, took, ripped off and under-paid: it’s all part and parcel of trying to make it in show business. As Spider Stacy of the Pogues once said to me,
Tani Newton Statistics tell us so much, and so little. These statistics are familiar to many of us: birthrates across the Western world have been below replacement level for decades. 45% of today’s young women will probably not have children, and societies which fail to replace their populations disappear
Whenever Australians have to endure the dreary virtue signals of “Welcome to Country”, it’s highly likely that those waxing solemn about the so-called “world’s oldest living culture” have never had any real exposure to the culture they’re fawning over. Or, indeed, experienced anything other than some fatuous,
History is littered with the corpses left behind by utopian revolutionaries. As Jordan Peterson points out, it’s pointless to condemn the grim toll of, say, the Maoists or the Stalinists, if we don’t forensically examine the ideologies that motivated their crimes and catastrophes. For instance, the Maoists insisted
Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me. Psalm 71:9 The American actress Patricia Clarkson has been around since around 1987: she’s 64 years old. I’ve been an admirer of her and her work for many years, though
What is it with doddering old left-wing politicians savaging their countries’ closest allies? OK, granted, Bob Carr is retired from active politics, but his influence in Labor politics remains immense. So, when Carr attacks the New Zealand government over its possible joining of AUKUS, you can bet people in Labor
Aaron Pomerantz Dr. Aaron Pomerantz is a social psychologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Rice University’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders, where he studies the psychology of destructive leadership and strategies for developing ethical leaders in both society and higher education. realclearwire.com Mere days after Columbia’s president
Are they ready yet to admit that multiculturalism has failed? That it was always going to fail, because it’s a dangerously flawed ideology? As poet Les Murray wrote, the worst ethnic chauvinists are the purest multiculturalists. “All’s permitted… when they migrate.” Australia is reaping the failure of multiculturalism
