Tani Newton Te Pati Maori’s call for a separate Maori Parliament may sound treasonous to some. To others, it is just another episode in the long and mildly sad story of a basically happy country that longs for a unity it can never quite achieve. Hobson’s promise, “We
Will Sellers Before joining the Court, Justice Sellers was in private practice for 28 years in the areas of taxation, business organizations and corporate and campaign finance. He was a member of Electoral College in 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. Bloodless revolutions are the exception, not the norm. Indeed, history
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When I was a schoolboy, few of our teachers, or anyone else, had ever been to university. Anyone with a degree was looked upon with awe. Sixty years later it seems everyone goes to university, largely thanks to the commercialisation of universities, now cluttered with
Historical revisionism has always been an indispensable tool of the cultural-Marxists which they developed into an entire ideology with Critical Theory in the humanities. The goal was to destroy objective truths and objective value judgments, especially the latter. If values cannot be ascertained, all morality is nothing but a subjective
NZCPR “As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.” Those were the words of Albert Einstein, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933 to live in the United States.
Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China-MBA MBA, is a China economic analyst teaching economics at the American University in Mongolia. He has spent 20 years in Asia and is the author of six books about China. His writing has appeared in The Diplomat, South China Mo. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harbours
We are the richest, safest, best-fed and educated generations of humans to have ever walked the planet. Too few people seem to even grasp this fact, let alone appreciate it. Nor do many really seem to grasp just how fragile the world we’ve built up through millennia of struggle
With the 80th anniversary this week of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, we’re once again reminded of just what a monumental undertaking it was. We’re all familiar, of course, with the images of landing craft hitting the beaches that morning, but the invasion had already begun hours before.
Joseph (Jake) Klein Joseph (Jake) Klein is the Curriculum Manager and a Content Creator at FEE. In addition to his role at FEE, Jake is the co-founder of The Black Sheep, a publication dedicated to promoting open inquiry on controversial topics. fee.org When you last visited the supermarket, you
Geoff Parker The United Tribes Flag (UTF) was not a Maori initiative, but a Pakeha-brokered expedient to protect New Zealand’s pre-Treaty commerce, and had nothing to do with sovereignty. As Michael King’s Penguin History of New Zealand (pages 153–5) describes it, independent witness Austrian Baron von Hugel
The One New Zealand Foundation Colonisation did not destroy the tangata Maori’s way of life; it was Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi who destroyed it when he returned from England in 1820 with over 500 muskets and went on the rampage south with 2000 of his followers, killing or taking as
Tani Newton For every good thing, they say, the devil has a malicious counterfeit. That was what came to my mind when I heard of the Maori Party’s “Declaration of Independence” and their plans to establish a Maori Parliament. We should all know that New Zealand has a declaration
As both Hillary Clinton and former Australian PM Julia Gillard – credit where it’s due to both – have recently observed, the pro-Hamas mobs storming university campuses and social media are singularly ignorant of history. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or
In human history, a handful of technologies have changed everything. Fire, for instance, and agriculture. Writing. The wheel. In the last few centuries, though, one technology upended global balances of power. As hinted in Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel, that technology was the firearm. Who had projectile weapons,
WWII was the deadliest conflict in human history. Within that haemoclysm, as it’s been dubbed, there were some jobs that were infinitely more deadly than others. An Italian partisan, for instance, had a slightly less than even chance of being killed, while over one third of the Waffen-SS were
