Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition The power of public bodies to de-platform speakers deserves to be thoughtfully considered and we say it’s a matter of public concern. Unusually the permanent Court of Appeal panel will be hearing the appeal here in Auckland – it will sit in the old Court
Geoffrey Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
The inability of the left to accept, let alone see an alternative viewpoint continues to astound me. Take political cartoonists as an example. I understand that the role of a cartoonist is to hold a cracked mirror up to a society, thereby enabling all its many facets to be sharply
Jake Hepple had a plane fly over the Etihad stadium with a White Lives Matter banner which drew condemnation from across the UK, but if Black Lives Matter then shouldn’t White Lives Matter also? This is the problem with subversive identity politics, if one group wants to claim they
There’s no denying that the Humanities are in crisis at our universities. The question is: what to do about it. There’s one argument that might be called “Technological Philistinism”, which urges the junking of Humanities altogether. Like H. G. Wells’s Artilleryman, with his visceral disdain for “novels
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Just as Clarence Darrow never wished anyone dead, yet smiled at many obituaries, Ann Coulter obviously can’t help but feel a twinge of schadenfreude as violent leftist mobs turn on the very people who’ve been cheering them on. They’re all “peaceful protesters” — until they come near you.
Does anyone remember MySpace? For a few years in the mid-2000s, it was the biggest website in the world, outstripping Google and Yahoo! in terms of traffic. It was also the name in social media. It was said, among other things, that music labels wouldn’t even consider an artist
Corinne Weaver papundits.wordpress.com Corinne Weaver is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch and she works as a senior analyst for the Media Research Center at the NewsBusters site. As the Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow, her coverage on tech censorship, media bias, and pro-life issues have been cited
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In an engaging article last week, Bob Jones commented about human rights: more specifically, fictitious human rights. Quoting a Dominion Post article declaring that incarcerated crims have a “basic human right to hug their children”, he dissected the nonsensical premise and attracted a flurry of activity from readers. It would
As the next step towards the inevitable living out the script of the movie Idiocracy, the Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, has banned the use of the word ‘Chief’ in job titles. Mayor, Emily Larson, has been wasting Council time and resources discussing this non-issue. Although it doesn’t require a
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