brownstone.org The past few days have been a whirlwind. We’ve seen a torrential flood of information coming from Fauci’s old office (with 155 pages of jaw-dropping emails) and the firing up of a global movement to stop the World Health Organization, which meets and votes next week.
He’s one of the most iconic images in Australian history. The towering, iron-clad figure emerging from the bush dawn in a haze of gunsmoke. Depending on your viewpoint, he was either an anti-Establishment rebel or a murderous Irish horse-thief with delusions of grandeur. Either way, the Ned Kelly legend
Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg or Bernie Sanders vanished without a trace. Then we might grasp, somewhat, the magnitude of the disappearance of the man Robert Kennedy called the “second-most powerful in America”: someone whose power and influence was only exceeded by the president himself. Yet, it’s likely that a
Lisa J. Hackett Lecturer, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England Jo Coghlan Associate Professor Humanities Arts and Social Sciences University of New England Armidale NSW, University of New England Bridgerton watchers started questioning the show’s historical authenticity (again) even before the third season landed. But does
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, was released in 2023. mercatornet.com 29 May sees 150 years since
Fred Too On May 11 2024 New Zealand lost Hon. Colin James Moyle CBE, a long-serving, well known former politician. Born on July 18 1929 Moyle represented the Labour Party in various electorates. Moyle’s tenure in Parliament began with his election as MP for Manukau in 1963, transitioning to
Title: Who Really Broke The Treaty? Author: John Robinson Genre: New Zealand History Publication Date: May 2024 Review by: Andy Oakley Author of ‘Once We Were One, the Fraud of Modern Separatism’, and ‘Cannons Creek to Waitangi, Te Pakeha’s Claim for Equality’ . In his latest book, prolific author John
Tani Newton As I said last time, the statistics tell us much, but also little. They tell us that the Western world is in population decline and extinguishing itself. Some would say that immigration is temporarily propping up the population, but it would be more realistic to say that immigration
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the editor at large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly
If a flying saucer landed on the outskirts of a Nebraska farming town and the locals completely ignored it, and went about their humdrum business, they’d be sneered at as brain-dead rednecks. What if the aliens persisted in trying to get attention by walking into the town square? And
One of the most persistent tropes in fiction, from Sherlock Holmes to superheroes, is the ‘criminal genius’. In real life, though, criminals are almost always far from geniuses. If they were that smart, they’d find legal ways to make buckets of money. And geniuses often make pretty lousy criminals.
Barry Brownstein Barry Brownstein is professor emeritus of economics and leadership at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of The Inner-Work of Leadership, and his essays have appeared in publications such as the Foundation for Economic Education and Intellectual Takeout. aier.org In The Road to Serfdom, F.
It’s strange how many supposed “mysteries” persist in the popular imagination, long after they’ve been pretty much solved. The Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, the Tunguska explosion, the “Missing Link”. And, of course, how the Great Pyramids were built. There’s not much mystery left about how the pyramids were
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, “Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science” exposes how the insane and murderous abuses of science perpetrated
There’s a mania, lately, for “repatriating” museum pieces collected during the “colonial” era. To which should be applied a rule of thumb, first suggested by YouTuber Carl Benjamin: if we had to dig it up, you never wanted it, anyway. Apocryphally, a frustrated Howard Carter reminded stonewalling Egyptian officials
When the Treaty of Waitangi Act created the Waitangi Tribunal, naïve politicians gave radicals free reign to twist the treaty, plunder the coffers, and try to seize control of New Zealand. This 50-year grand scheme centres on allegations that “the Crown” (meaning you and I), broke the treaty and should
