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
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
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,
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
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,
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
Bruce Logan Bruce Logan is a board member of Family First NZ familyfirst.org.nz The rise of ‘boutique multiculturalism’ – by Bruce Logan Richard Dawkins, atheist extraordinaire and apprentice conservative, has not been on the road to Damascus, but somewhat belatedly he has recognised the significance of what we have
The British Empire, A Force For Good. By John McLean, Tross Publications. Reviewed by Crispin Caldicott This tome represents not just a labour of love, but at nearly 600 pages a massive piece of scholarship. 101 of the territories that made up the British Empire are investigated for their fortunes,
Whenever some pro-Hamas ignoramus starts jabbering about Israel, they inevitably screech “zionism”. So, I challenge them to define zionism. Most can’t: they’re simply parroting a buzzword, and, as Orwell once wrote, “the average human being never bothers to examine catchwords”. They’re also too cowardly to say
Mike Butler Mike Butler is the author of The First Colonist and The Treaty – Basic Facts and Treaty Transparency Let’s be honest about treaty settlements for a few minutes. The table below shows that around $4.6 billion has been largely paid as financial redress for alleged breaches of
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
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
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
