Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who declared 2020 “The Year of Covid” and 2021 “The Year of the Vaccine”, has yet to christen the year 2022 on which we have just embarked. Let me suggest – nay implore – that 2022 should be “The Year of Reality”: the year when we shrug off
Guacamole and Tomato Salsa. Photo credit The BFD. The peoples of Mexico can find their origins in the long-extinct Mayans. Mayan mini-empires extending over millennia reached their cultural and economic zenith a very long time ago. These city-state empires began their decline in the 7th-8th centuries AD, weakened through endless
JP Sears awakenwithjp.com If you ever wondered what you would do during the civil rights era that sought to end segregation from society or during Nazi Germany, what you are doing today is the answer to that question. We can look back at Germany in the 1930s and see
It’s a curious thing: the people most obsessed with climate change seem to have the most trouble grasping the concept of “change”. They seem to live with a peculiar delusion that the climate of the middle 1960s — just coincidentally, the heyday of the Boomer Establishment’s youth — is somehow
When animated comedy Over the Hedge wanted to emblemise modern fast-food culture, it chose “the chip”. Granted, the chip in that instance was a corn chip, but a major plot device of the film is the protagonist’s obsession with a particular brand of potato chip. The origin of the
Vas is das? Kugel is another one of those long-cooking Sabbath dishes from the Jewish kitchen, combined with eggs and in some cases caramel, and overcooked. Kugel is more often dark brown in colour, compressed and squished in texture. At first glance kugel is wholly unappetising, to say the least,
Balding multimillionaire leftist Peter FitzSimons, who is as much a historian as the Fifty Shades books are great literature, recently had quite the dummy-spit over Australia’s Freedom protesters adopting the Eureka flag. With his characteristic grasp of historical fact, FitzSimons blustered that the protesters “know nothing of Eureka”. The
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The bi-yearly honours list invariably invites controversy with some recipients deemed to be unworthy. It’s going on in Britain now with massive outrage over Tony Blair’s knighthood, understandably in his case. Nigh on a million signatures have been garnered for a petition demanding
I must admit that I haven’t watched the Joe Rogan/Robert Malone podcast (I’ve barely watched Rogan at all, in fact), but that hasn’t stopped me noticing one of the biggest take-homes most people seem to have gleaned from it: “mass formation psychosis” (MFP). Malone, stepping beyond
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
Jared McBrady brownstone.org Jared McBrady is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at SUNY Cortland. In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and
Alisa Freedman University of Oregon Alisa Freedman is a Professor of Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender at the University of Oregon and Editor-in-Chief of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal. See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think of dorm rooms and
J M White My grandfather William, aged 9, arrived in Port Chalmers on board the clipper ship Peter Denny on 3 September 1873. With him were his three siblings: two-year-old Jessie, his brother Adam, aged 7, and his older sister Alison aged 11. Seven children died from dysentery on that
