Of all countries, Germany ought to know better than most just how important freedom of speech is, and how dangerous government spying and censorship regimes really are. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that half the country was under the iron rod of the Stasi surveillance state. It’
As I wrote recently, New Zealand police are hot on the case when some petty vandalism sets the rainbow chickens clucking, but actual crimes? Of the robby, stabby, shooty, kind? You won’t see them for dust. In fact, most New Zealanders don’t even bother reporting crimes any more,
Gerardine Hoogland Gerardine is a Roman historian, with specific interest in Rome’s foundation up to the end of the Republic. She advocates that history gifts us with wisdom for the mind and nourishment for the soul, and keenly defends the ancients’ legacy of civic society, law, and government. libertyitch.
She’d no doubt hate the comparison, but it’s hard not to think of Margaret Thatcher’s doubtless most famous phrase, when watching J. K. Rowling stand up to the bully-boys in dresses and their cowardly, creepy enablers in the parliaments, courts and police stations. I prefer to
It’s one and the same for fringe minorities seeking public affirmation through exploiting great chasms of tolerance embedded in our Christian-based law but the answer is not to adopt law changes instilling intolerance, but to nip the opportunists in the bud. Trannies did it in public libraries up
Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com 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. When it comes to free speech in New Zealand, the hypocrisy (or at best, inconsistency) of
Well, these are strange days, indeed: I find myself in wholehearted agreement with Margaret Atwood. Despite the acclaim heaped on them, I’ve always found Atwood’s books to be risible taradiddles with little grasp of history or the realities of human society. In contrast to the masochistic feminine fantasies
NewZealandDoc Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. newzealanddoc.substack.com This morning I awoke to a message from a person purporting to be
Many years ago, I found myself “between jobs”, as they say. Mrs Brady, diligently scanning the job ads, found a position open in a health food store. “Must have a commitment to sharing organic and vegan lifestyles”, the ad specified. I pointed out that I was, if anything, diametrically opposed
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
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 When it comes to free speech in New Zealand, the hypocrisy (or at best, inconsistency) of
Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a BA in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa Right
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org On the evening of March 20, 2020, Waylon Bailey was bored. Like nearly all members of the public at the time, he was under “lockdown” because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, he decided
Caleb Anderson Published first on NZCPR Ideas are often difficult to define. Generally, our understanding of ideas is defined by two things. 1. By what an idea does (what it produces) 2. By what it is not (by its opposite) How would you define democracy, for example? Most of us
