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It Is Darkest Before Dawn
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. It’s been a painful four years watching the
Welfare – No Good News
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
Lessons from the Persecution of Assange
Brownstone Institute Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. After 12 years of confinement, Julian Assange now stands on the verge of freedom after agreeing to a guilty plea in exchange for
Do You Think Ardern Actually Failed?
At the weekend I read a rather amusing post on a friend’s Facebook. It was titled “World’s Shortest Books”, intended to be jokesy, and included such ‘titles’ as “Hawaii: a travel guide” by Captain Cook and “Maori Parliament: The Early Years” by Rawiri Waititi. One of the joke
The History of the American Empire
Garet Garrett Garet Garrett (1878–1954) is a case study in a forgotten genius, about whom Ludwig von Mises said: “His keen penetration and his forceful direct language are … unsurpassed by any author.” Mises was speaking about his book The People’s Pottage (1953), which is a collection of three
Is Putin really a Communist?
Augusto Zimmermann Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. He is a former Associate Dean, Research, at Murdoch Law School. The modern nation of Russia was formally the centre of the Soviet Union, a socialist state founded after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
Facing China with a Third Path
Warren Wang Warren escaped Communist China a decade ago to pursue education in Australia. Now a finance businessman, he passionately defends libertarian freedoms. Vigorously opposing Covid lockdowns and mandates, Warren champions traditional Western liberties, hoping Australia avoids becoming the repressive nation he left behind. Chinese Premier Li Qiang has just
These Are NOT UN Agencies
JM White Do you recall the shooting of PM Fico of Slovakia? The MSM stated he was shot because he was against supplying weapons to Ukraine and was therefore a supporter of Russia. But Fico was also an ardent opponent of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and the revised WHO International
The Elusive Goal of Kotahitanga
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
The Magna Carta’s Constitutional Tradition
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
Ans Westra – A Life in Photography
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
This Is a Cultural-Marxist Infection
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
NZ’s Democracy Is in Turmoil
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.
China’s Kaifeng Jews Have Almost Disappeared
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)