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Opposing CRT Doesn’t Make You a “White Supremacist”

Julian Adorney Julian Adorney is a writer and marketing consultant with the Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org), and has previously written for National Review, The Federalist and other outlets. mises.org Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory (CRT), recently decried what she called the “war

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The Principles of the Treaty

The Principles of the Treaty

The Doctor The Law Society is consulting on making it compulsory for its members to follow the “principles of the treaty of Waitangi” in all their work. Government departments, local councils and even some private entities have committed themselves in writing to follow these “principles”. Note that these entities do

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Lockdowners in Power at the CDC

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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Chiefs’ Agreement with Queen Victoria in 1840

Chiefs’ Agreement with Queen Victoria in 1840

This article was written by the One New Zealand Foundation Inc. from documents held in the New Zealand, Australian and American Archives, the British Parliamentary Papers, and Official Information Act request from Crown Departments.  (Copyright) 24/5/23. We have all forgotten what the agreement between the tangata Maori and

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Nope the Schools Have Got It Wrong

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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Let’s Have Some Real Truth-Telling

Let’s Have Some Real Truth-Telling

Every January, Australia is subjected to the same, dreary circus of whingeing about its colonial history. The most pervasive are that Australia was “invaded” (it wasn’t) and that a “genocide” was committed by the “invaders”. Wrong, and wrong. In fact, the founding documents of British Australia, Governor Phillip’s

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How Will the Voice Bring Peace to the Indigenous?

How Will the Voice Bring Peace to the Indigenous?

mercatornet.com Having recently returned ‘down south’ from almost a year spent living and working in the Northern Territory, I could not be more opposed to the proposed voice to Parliament. Like many other Sydneysiders, I used to support the idea. I was persuaded by slick messaging from public figures,

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The Boston Brahmins, Nazis and the Quest for Eugenics

mises.org During the progressive era, academia hastily adopted the inhumane pseudoscience of eugenics, and its results on the world were devastating. The influence of the Boston Brahmins in New England can explain the fervent adoption of this malignant belief. This elite and well-educated class of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants reeked

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A Fourth Article for the Treaty?

A Fourth Article for the Treaty?

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Massey University issued a draft Tiriti o Waitangi Policy in May 2022 to staff, students and stakeholders which expresses its “commitment to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its associated principles”. It was prepared by the Office of the DVC Maori (Deputy Vice Chancellor Maori) to update

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Durham, the Media, a Prize and Duranty

newsbusters.org In theory, the Durham Report and the testimony of FBI whistleblowers was to be about the internal conduct of the FBI. It was that, to be sure. But without doubt the combination of the two was a decided fusillade that hit the once impenetrable fortress that was the

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What Will Save Us from Demographic Doom?

What Will Save Us from Demographic Doom?

mercatornet.com Many moons ago I endured a course entitled “Western Civilization.” The class was way ‘woke’ before anyone knew of the word as a staple of PC discourse. That was because the professor was down on Western civilization and did his utmost to ensure that us callow Western youth

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How’d Africa Go Once the Colonials Left?

How’d Africa Go Once the Colonials Left?

Bruce Gillies’ paper The Case for Colonialism provoked a storm and resulted in something not seen since Galileo and Lysenko: a double-blind, peer-reviewed scientific paper was memory-holed under threat of violence. That this dangerously regressive step went almost unremarked apart from near-universal approval from the academic establishment is testament to

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Not the Only Gays in the Village

Not the Only Gays in the Village

Much has been made of polling that purports to show that X per cent of GenZ “identify as” Alphabet People. Which, to those of us with one foot in the realm of sanity and the other in world of experience, tells us something pretty obvious: young people are ignorant, easily-led,

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Turning Their Backs on History

Boaz Dvir Assistant Professor of Journalism Penn State The Florida Department of Education announced on April 10, 2023, that it had rejected 35% of the social studies books publishers submitted for approval and use in the state’s public schools. The move was based on a determination the books contain

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Twisting the History to Fit the Narrative

Twisting the History to Fit the Narrative

mises.org In history classes (in public or private schools, colleges, and others), state propaganda and mainstream history, a historical fiction has been spun that allegedly debunks any notion of noninterventionism. This is the myth of American isolationism. The assertion usually goes that America was extremely isolationist prior to World

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Palestine Continues to Attack, Despite Israel’s Response

libertynation.com The Israeli government has wasted no time in retaliating to a continuous and intense bombardment by Islamic jihad militants from the Gaza Strip, fighting back with successful airstrikes. In recent days, along with accurate air defense protecting Israeli cities from the Palestinian rocket fire, Israeli defense forces have

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