Peter Kastor Peter Kastor is Professor of History & American Culture Studies, Associate Vice Dean of Research, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis mercatornet.com Hunter Biden, the surviving son of President Joe Biden, was indicted on Sept. 14, 2023, on gun-related charges – facing a possible
If you think this year’s election involves lots of fun and games the video below shows the campaign trail nearly fifty years ago at the 1975 election. There are a few things which you may find rather interesting to view: 1. How awkward Sir Robert Muldoon was in “social”
dailytelegraph.co.nz Quick-thinking private security personnel have detained an armed man at an event attended by US Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jnr. The offender was later arrested by police. Kennedy shared information about the unnerving incident on social media, which took place at an Hispanic heritage event
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. bassettbrashandhide.com If Labour ministers and our left-leaning media knew more about New Zealand’s political history they would
The ACT Party launched its election campaign yesterday. One of ACT’s main policies is for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi. But National’s said it doesn’t support it, potentially setting up some difficult negotiations between David Seymour and Christopher Luxon if the two are in positions
As the hugely successful biopic Oppenheimer demonstrates, scientists aren’t always nerdy, lab-coated types solely obsessed with scribbling equations on blackboards. J Robert Oppenheimer was a man of wide, and sometimes weird, interests. When he quoted the Bhagavad Gita as the Trinity test bomb mushroomed into the New Mexico
There’s a notable curiosity about so-called “channelers” and “past life regressors”: the spirits they “contact” are always decidedly posh. Atlantean and Egyptian priestesses are quite popular. If they can’t be posh, they must at least be exciting: Salem witches, for example. No New Ager worth their salt
Javier Piedra Javier M Piedra is a financial consultant, specialist in international development and former deputy assistant administrator for South and Central Asia at USAID. mercatornet.com Over the past several decades, much of Asia, from Singapore to Seoul, has been experiencing a demographic implosion of unsettling proportions – just look
Gilbert Berdine, MD Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. mises.org Healthcare providers have known for years that contact between patients and family members are essential for good outcomes
Mark Sanderson Julian Thomas Kieran Hegarty Lisa M. Given RMIT University theconversation.com Monday marked an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine. What
What, exactly, did a Roman emperor do all day? Growing up on a steady diet of Italian sword’n’sandal epics and BBC toga productions, it’s easy to imagine that it was all endless rounds of orgies and gladiatorial games. Oh, and wars, of course. An emperor was, above
Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com The White House and the legacy
dailytelegraph.co.nz THIS MONTH MARKS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF NEW ZEALAND’S MOST ENDURING MURDER MYSTERIES – THE DISAPPEARANCE OF NAPIER SCHOOLGIRL KIRSA JENSEN. Fourteen-year-old Kirsa went missing while riding her horse Commodore after school along the beachfront in Awatoto, Napier, on 1 September 1983. Her
When you think about it, Christianity is surely the only world religion with a torture device as its symbol. Of course, that’s misrepresenting the symbolism of the Cross as much as the Romans mistaking the doctrines of transubstantiation and Jesus’ birth to mean that early Christians literally ate the
Lawrence W Reed 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 Heroes:
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Too many politicians at every level of government – central and local – are either ignorant about what the Treaty of Waitangi meant or are intimidated by those for whom
