CFACT Ed cfact.org CFACT — We’re freedom people. Dear Provost Susan Jeffords, I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll’s famous novel about Alice’s absurd adventures in a world of upended logic. Amongst her many memorable conversations is this one with
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A senior New Zealand medical figure has sent me the following. It speaks for itself about the commercialisation of our universities, tailoring nonsense degrees to fit the intellectually challenged. BUY Your Own First Edition Hardcover Signed Copy of Sir Bob’s Latest Book Today. Please
Alwyn Poole Information Opinion Tracey Martin became a member of parliament on the coattails of Winston Peters. When Peters and NZ First did not get over the 5% line in 2020 Martin suddenly announced that the party’s values did not match hers and promptly left a ship she helped
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Auckland University has announced via a newspaper full page advertorial, a new degree course, specifically a Bachelor of Communications. I don’t believe in my long life of 10 hours daily reading, I’ve ever read such abominable guff. Reading through the advert’s verbiage
Education Minister Chris Hipkins is mythmaking about the impact of school closures on learning, no doubt to downplay the impact of his Government’s failures over Covid, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Yesterday in Parliament Mr Hipkins asserted that results for students were as good or slightly better
Alwyn Poole The Ministry of Education in NZ have as their motto that: “We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes.” The data tells a very different story. Our system is stratified in terms of socio-economics (decile), ethnicity, gender, schools types (faith-based vs value-free). Even these comments
Ethan Yang aier.org Ethan Yang is an Adjunct Research Fellow at AIER as well as the host of the AIER Authors Corner Podcast. He holds a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations with minors in legal studies and formal organizations from Trinity College in Hartford
Alwyn Poole The default mode of children and young people is to look to the grown ups in the room for inspiration, comfort and guidance. As Carl Jung said: “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Dear Editor, I thought I would forward you the school email we received prior to lockdown. My child in year 12 said teachers were talking about subjects being loaded to online learning on Monday, much to his surprise. He thinks they were being warned of the lockdown. It seems the
Would you like a Woke scholarship so that you can study “people with uteruses”? PhD Scholarship in Women’s and Reproductive Health in Aotearoa Te Punaha Matatini Scholarships Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD scholarship to explore reproductive health through a co-production process. “Most New Zealanders want to
As kids and parents face weeks away from school, the Government remains vague on the reality of education under lockdown, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Education Minister Chris Hipkins admitted to a Select Committee this morning that the Government doesn’t have a clear idea of how many
Family First Bob McCoskrie National Director The latest Government advice regarding booking COVID-19 vaccinations for children is a real concern. It explicitly says: “as a 12 to 15-year-old, your parent or guardian’s permission is not required if your health care provider is confident you are deemed competent to give
