Jeffrey Miller Associate Professor of Hospitality Management Colorado State University Jeff Miller teaches Hospitality Management at Colorado State University. He was a French-style bistro chef for 20 years before becoming a teacher. He has travelled the world looking for exciting culinary experiences and interesting cultures. Nothing says Christmas quite like
Joe Perry Georgia State University In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the world-liberator on the cross” and
Joan Fitzpatrick Loughborough University Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes and apple sauce accompanied by sage and onion stuffing and followed
Ryan McMaken Ryan McMaken is executive editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public policy, finance, and international relations from
William Keylor Boston University The Christmas Truce is no stranger to popular entertainment – 2014 more than any other as its 100th anniversary is marked. The famous moment when British and German soldiers climbed out of the trenches in peace on Christmas Day 1914 has been replicated and ruminated upon in
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Is the government using a “measles outbreak” to divert from the crumbling Covid narrative and create fear for compliance again? As if on cue, a purported email from Reach Aotearoa to its former staff members started circulating on social media. The
A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com In a recent series, I discussed the how unsafe and ineffective the SSRI antidepressants are and how the immense amount of money made from selling depression (and its indefinite “treatment”) to everyone caused effective cures treatments for depression to become almost completely forgotten. One of
John Klar libertynation.com The WHO (World Health Organization) took center stage during the Covid pandemic as the global coordinator of effective response. Questions about the organization’s proper role – and competence – preceded and now survive the Covid crisis. Was the WHO effective and apolitical in its response, and can
Troy Bickham Professor of History Texas A&M University As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there were none.
In recent times there has been a lot of talk in the media and elsewhere – actually it is just in the media and Labour Party circles – trying to paint the new Government as somehow “racist”. So let us analyse that to see if there is anything in it: something which
Ross Baker Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc EST: 1988. Courtney Johnston CEO of Te Papa, Wellington. Dear Sir, Re: Te Papa’s CEO must take a long hard look at what Te Papa displays! I have been a researcher for the One New Zealand Foundation Inc. since its formation
Many things have changed. Everyone smoked. Everyone went to the pub. It was cheap. Attending University was not the financial hurdle it is today. Join the students’ union, buy your textbooks and get a seasonal job during the Christmas New Year break with maybe some part-time weekend employment. If you
Ann Farmer Ann Farmer writes from the United Kingdom. mercatornet.com In this age of cancel culture, every year I’m pleasantly surprised to see that Christmas has survived. The modern battle against Christianity is not a frontal assault — but it is slowly succeeding. Christmas trees will not get the
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com What is this thing called “rangatiratanga” that only Maoris have and is the Act Party trying to erase it? Writing in a Stuff publication, a 34-year-old activist named Max Harris said that the Act Party
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s the first thing that came to mind after the news that protestors had been abseiling inside Te Papa
