The Historian Introduction: If New Zealanders are to embrace, honour, respect, and trust the Maori culture the foundation of that culture must be based on the truth, not fairy tales. Anything less would be offensive and insulting and would dishonour the past memories and actions of respected Maori chiefs and
We are running another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are copies of Keith Mexsom’s latest book Gas Pedal to Back-Pedal – The Second Century of Auckland Transport which is Part Two of a planned trilogy that builds on the founding and development of Auckland’s
One of the great mysteries of Game of Thrones is not how a pair of infamous hacks somehow landed one of the plum production jobs in television history, but why its heroine, Daenerys Targaryen, wasn’t a deformed, drooling idiot rather than a luminous beauty. After all, the Targaryen dynasty
Some of the most stunning archaeological finds are the results of serendipity. Bedouin shepherd boys stumbling on the cave of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Napoleonic soldier tripping over the partly-buried Rosetta Stone. A warren of bunnies digging up prehistoric British tools. In a first-of-its-kind discovery
Suicide has been regarded differently by societies around the world and throughout history. To the ancient Romans, it was an honourable reaction to disgrace: “falling on your own sword” refers to the action that might be taken by a disgraced leader. In Japanese society, the feudal notion of ritual suicide,
As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by Korau. Thank you Korau for taking the time to craft such an
Call me a reactionary, but the contemporary leftist obsession with “racial justice” seems an awful lot like a Revolution of the Envious Losers. Dispute it as they will, the modern world was largely built by the brains and sweat of white, Christian, male Westerners. The left, of course, will cherry-
Think of the word “fossil” and you will almost certainly picture bones. That’s because fossilisation is an incredibly rare and unusual process that prefers the hardest parts of organisms: bones, teeth, shells, woody trunks. Fossils of organisms lacking bones or shells, or the soft body parts of those that
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as
AHNZ ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz New Zealand is a Dutch discovery and the naming of our country was the cutting-edge part of a ground-breaking and bold Enlightenment statement to the world. Abel Tasman took his discovery home to Holland where it was added to the charts¹ by master
From Piscador to Sephardi Kitchen Traditions As we all know, the Spanish (Sephardi) have very clear titles for the ones that willingly participate in bloodletting at the bull ring. Matadors, picadors and toreadors all have their highly skilled roles fancy hats and costumes with some attracting more girls and accolades
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. One of the toughest challenges for the global warming crowd occurs when, after the passage of time, the doom they predicted is nowhere to be seen. Dr. Jay Lehr rounded up ten
History, it is said, is written by the victors. When the vanquished were of a pre-literate society, moreover one noted for its insular reticence about its religious beliefs (“I swear by the gods my people swear by”), then it is no wonder we know so little about its practitioners.
We are running another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are copies of Keith Mexsom’s latest book Gas Pedal to Back-Pedal – The Second Century of Auckland Transport which is Part Two of a planned trilogy that builds on the founding and development of Auckland’s
David Daintree mercatornet.com David Daintree is Director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies, in Hobart, Tasmania. To anyone with a strong stomach and a willingness to face up to some grim truths about human nature, I recommend this two-part documentary on the Hitler Youth movement (the
Free Press ACT Party Hard to Find Material If you would like to read Roger Partridge’s latest excellent column, it is here on Chris Trotter’s blog. Normally Roger’s columns appear in the Herald. This one, a thoughtful critique of the Government’s proposed New Zealand History curriculum,
