Frankie Bailey Professor of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York With the death of O.J. Simpson, I can’t help but wonder whether the media has learned any lessons from its coverage of his trial, in which the ex-football star was acquitted of murdering his
Brian Matthew Jordan realclearwire.com One hundred and fifty-nine years ago this Sunday, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger. The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine
Tom Baker Associate Professor in Human Geography University of Auckland The appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to see why the university’s governing body made
The growing wealth of the country…is mainly concentrated in a few hands, and the number of very rich men is becoming larger. The tendency of wealth to get into fewer hands is becoming more marked. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 (First Annual Message) It’s not just in New Zealand but
Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Dr. Yvette Alt Miller holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and has taught at Northwestern University, London Business School, and lectured around the world. Her most recent book, Portraits of Valor: Heroic Jewish Women You Should Know describes the
Geoff Parker A recent letter to a Northland newspaper protested that land acquired for Maori schools had not been returned to iwi when these facilities were closed. Similarly, there’s yet another Maori occupation of private land in the region, claiming it should be returned because it had once been
OK, here’s a little bit of pithy wisdom I’d not heard before but which will prove handy to folk like me who are forever trying to remember whether clocks go backward or forward at the beginning or ending of daylight savings time: Spring forwards, fall backwards. Aha, sorted.
Chris Lynch chrislynchmedia.com If more funding to reinstate Christ Church Cathedral is not secured by August, then the project will be indefinitely mothballed, Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Limited announced today. This is despite the fact that rate payers were forced to contribute $10 million to the project in 2017,
Shai Carmi Associate Professor of Population and Statistical Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harald Ringbauer Group Leader, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Regardless of intermittent weather, the electrical grid is expected to deliver continuous and uninterrupted electricity, no matter what the weather, to support
For going on a century and a half, the Ripper murders have exercised a continuous fascination on Western culture. Dozens of movies, hundreds of books and even pop songs have been inspired by the 19th-century serial killer. Not for nothing does the Ripper fictionally declare, in Alan Moore’s From
Dave Patterson libertynation.com This year National Vietnam War Veterans Day coincides with Good Friday, a day that commemorates the ultimate sacrifice Christ made for all mankind. So it is fitting for Americans to remember and revere the sacrifice of those who answered their country’s call and went to
David Tombs Howard Paterson Chair of Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know, however, this has more to do with artistic convention than historical accuracy. Featuring a loincloth goes
Harry Palmer It’s been 12 years since I came across a grave in the gloomy gothic-feeling graveyard in front of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth (UK). The museum has been converted from the home, the parsonage, where the Reverend Patrick Bronte lived with his wife Maria and where
Michael Lambert Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation, Lancaster University “For the decades of pain that you have suffered, I offer today a sincere and heartfelt and unreserved apology. We were wrong.” One year ago, on March 22 2023, the then first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, stood up at Holyrood
