Capitalist Information Opinion The press release issued by National MP Paul Goldsmith was a shock to read. “…The occupation, riots and destruction of property was a significant event in our history. Disorder reigned in central Wellington for an extended period, and the final resolution involved some of the worst rioting
Tabitha Stanmore theconversation.com As I was scrolling through Twitter recently, a viral tweet caught my attention. It was an image from a book of spells claiming that: “You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.” The spell comes from Kathryn Paulsen’s 1971 book, The
The Answer is a Lemon Preserving foodstuffs to give them life beyond their natural season without modern means has been part of civilised man’s daily grind for millennia. Salting, drying, smoking, fermenting or preserving in fats or sugars have been the way to stretch and provide sustenance for those
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Nowhere Man Warning Long Read 1753 words “Wow! You ask all of the easy questions, don’t you?” So – how does one answer this? Let’s start with some background. Legal Stuff. There is a thing called Just War theory (bellum justum) which considers the reasons for undertaking a war
Capitalist It was 50 years ago today that the first Godfather movie was released. The film struck a chord with an astonishingly large proportion of the world’s population (around 12% went to see it in 1972). It made stars out of Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and James Caan (hitherto
There are those that like their meat medium rare, well done or even blue, there are others that prefer to wait for several hours and feast on butter soft morsels infused with the flavours from ‘the very long cook’. The short cooked meats align themselves with expensive cuts, “barbies” and
You may have been thinking it, but maybe you haven’t dared to discuss the possibility that there are some freaky parallels between public health’s measures of dealing with COVID-19 and how the Holocaust came to be. In this report, I interview Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav. Vera was
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Proponents of a so-called “Indigenous Voice” endlessly whine that “Australia doesn’t recognise it’s First Nations people”. Leaving aside that grating, imported Americanism, one has to ask: what rock do the Voice proponents think we live under? Because it’s impossible to open a paper bag in Australia
Helen Roche Durham University Dr. Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, has just been published by Oxford University Press. In spring 1936, teenage schoolboy – and later war
For many years, a comforting myth endured in part of Australia: that, with the arrival of the British, the Aboriginal inhabitants of the land conveniently, somehow, just disappeared. But in recent years, an equally pernicious lie has come to rule the ivory towers of academia and the chic cafes of
Fiona E. McNeill McMaster University Fiona E. McNeill is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. She builds biomedical devices to painlessly assess people’s body burden of toxic metals. She uses the technology in population studies to see whether exposure to poisonous metals can
Dear Editor Putin is now waiting to see if reason plus force works. Like a cat toying with a mouse. Russia destroyed Grozny to subdue the Chechen revolution. When reason didn’t work, they tried force. When force didn’t work, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin succeeded with total annihilation. To start,
