This is my ANZAC Day tribute posting. ANZAC Day means a great deal for me and my family. I suppose it is because we have a connection to the original ANZACS in 1915 and Gallipoli, and to a veteran of a war much fresher in our minds, Vietnam. Firstly, I
Some kids have all the luck. Like most kids, I was a dinosaur fanatic. I still am. I was lucky enough, at least, to go on a bona fide fossil dig, in my early teens. I’ve fossicked a handful of minor fossils since. But nothing like little Lily Wilder’
Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet is a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. In Dallas, Texas, an assortment of particularly risk-tolerant graduate students sat around a
It may have won a swag of Academy Awards, though why is beyond me, but James Cameron’s Titanic is not exactly noted for its historical accuracy. From Picasso paintings that most definitely weren’t on the Titanic, to flashlights and filtered cigarettes, there were a whole bunch of anachronisms.
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org A large part of the success of Western civilisation was that our European ancestors saw fit to mount an enormous civil war during the Reformation and Counter Reformation to defang Catholic theocracy during the pernicious times of the Inquisition. It climaxed with the regicide of the
Michael Cook Michael Cook Is Editor of Mercator mercatornet.com Fifty years ago died one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. You have probably never heard of Stanistawa Leszczynska. Few people have. Yet she was a model of heroism and humanity who should be acclaimed around the
As I wrote recently, even the dim bulbs of the woke left are aware that shilling for the most regressive, misogynist, homophobic religious ideology in the world is an obvious and staggering hypocrisy. So, what do most of them do? What the left always do when they’re caught out:
Geoff Parker In her disjointed article, Josie Pagani promotes the dark forces that strive to undermine New Zealand’s precious democracy. In my view, Pagani pins her argument for Maori wards or ‘power-sharing’ on the Treaty of Waitangi, but there is nothing in the Treaty (any version or translation) that
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com A dawn service in Cathedral Square will provide an opportunity for residents to honour New Zealand’s fallen soldiers on Anzac Day. Thousands are expected
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
