As I reminded BFD readers, it should not be forgotten that university students were early and enthusiastic adopters of Nazi ideology in the Third Reich. Students, as the Holocaust Encyclopedia relates, “often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”. They’re at it again. Yes, nearly a century
In the 1930s, university students were at the vanguard of the Nazi Reich. The National Socialist German Student League soon became notorious as one of the most antisemitic groups in the Reich. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, “Paramilitary student groups often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”
Dear Editor It is another Hipkins disaster. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350246034/how-did-cost-moving-two-schools-blow-out-more-400m I have been in the building industry for over twenty years and I have done a lot of schools. I find them a low margin business
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. I just got back from the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. The theme of the Commission this year was ending poverty. I spent a week listening
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.
Max Payne libertyitch.com Max Payne is the Australian Program Associate with Students For Liberty, a global non-profit that spreads the values of libertarianism on campus. He is also a twice former candidate with the Libertarian Party and maintains a keen interest in Austrian economics, classical music and organic
Tom Baker Associate Professor in Human Geography University of Auckland The appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to see why the university’s governing
Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.com When
David Seymour David Seymour is leader of the ACT Party and Associate Minister of Education (Partnership Schools). bassettbrashandhide.com The so-called School Strike for Climate isn’t just a problem for attendance, it is bad for mental health and fixing the climate, too. Monday and Tuesday were days off
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 Media, left-wing MPs, and progressives delighted in another School Strike for Climate Change last Friday.
George Leef George Leef is director of editorial content for the James G Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College (Waukesha, WI) and a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation
Remember when it was all, “Gays are just nice, normal people entitled to their privacy like anyone else”? Somehow that’s become, “Gays like to bang animals and they want to tell your kids about it in secret!” If the latter sounds “homophobic” to you, rest easy. It’s officially
John Porter With Critical Race Theory (CRT), we face a doctrine deeply embedded for decades with its genesis in Marxism. I have written earlier that we should all have serious concerns about the incremental creep of CRT into our lives and also into our country’s culture and governance. The
Adam Andrzejewski realclearwire.com Topline: A California school district used $2 million of taxpayer funds to train high schoolers to fight for racial and social justice, according to records obtained by The Free Press. Key facts: Long Beach Unified School District hired the group Californians for Justice in 2019 to
