Linsey Robb Associate Professor Northumbria University, Newcastle Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project: I was always pretty strongly conscious of the
Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science newzealanddoc.substack.com Each day brings with it its measure of joy or travail. The noise of life hums along and practicalities absorb the attention of most of us, enough so that the profundity of alterations introduced by
In the previous post, I looked at how Australian history, in the popular imagination and in academic circles, is dominated by narratives that are too often spun out of little but outraged assertion and fanciful interpretation. On the other hand, careful examination of primary sources, many of which are only
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate
Jacob G Hornberger ronpaulinstitute.org I entered Virginia Military Institute as a freshman in 1968. By that time, the Vietnam War was in full swing. During the four years that I was at the school, VMI graduates were among the tens of thousands of US soldiers who were being killed
Academic historians are an odd bunch. Especially in Australia. They’re all too ready to write up fairy-stories and garbled oral legends as “history”, but not much interested, it seems, in actual, documented, primary sources. For instance, peer-reviewed Australian journals cite the “memories” of an Aboriginal stockman in the Northern
In his A Short History of the World, Geoffrey Blainey writes that the ability to make and use fire was “the most useful tool possessed by the human race until recent times”. For all it’s astonishing usefulness, though, fire came to the human toolkit surprisingly late. Humans – or our
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com “The bedrock of any successful
Harry Palmer I was born in 1944 in Manchester, UK, four years before the introduction of the National Health Service. At the age of two or three, I entered into a relationship with the medical profession when I was taken to a doctor’s surgery by my mother. Though no
Calder Walton Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School “Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’
Benjamin Williams Benjamin Williams is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. He has produced videos and written content for many libertarian organizations such as the Mises Institute and Students For Liberty. Under the alias PraxBen on TikTok, he has amassed over 200,000 followers and
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll almost certainly remember The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams on the telly. I never watched it myself, but, by cultural osmosis, I still know about John Adams and Gentle Ben. What I certainly didn’t know is the real story
Reading old science fiction is an often eye-opening glimpse of long-discarded scientific theories. Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, for instance, refers to the idea that continents grew from atolls. Whole libraries of SF were built on the long-debunked notion of Martian canals. The demise of the
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington
