Whenever the “IFL Science!” bros started beating their chests about the infallibility of The Science™, I like to gently suggest that these honking loons read Walter Gratzer’s The Undergrowth of Science. This invaluable little tome is an antidote to not only incipient Scientism but the uncritical worship of “experts”
Michael endoftheamericandream.com Things weren’t always this horrible. Once upon a time, America’s shiny new cities were the envy of the entire world. Our citizens dressed sharply, they treated one another with respect, and they worked incredibly hard. But now our country is teeming with extremely slothful degenerates
Daniella McCahey Assistant Professor of History Texas Tech University When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ended on March 2, 1958, it marked what many called the last great adventure possible on Earth: an overland crossing of the Antarctic continent. Sixty-five years later, it’s remembered in New Zealand chiefly
Mike Butler In a new book titled New Zealand’s History Curriculum – Education or Indoctrination? educator Roger Childs eviscerates what he calls “a deliberate, pre-meditated attempt at social engineering”. The push for a compulsory anti-colonist curriculum started in 2014 when pupils from Otorohanga College on a field trip
Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This column was first published at The Common Room, commonroomnz.com Even if Chris Hipkins is no longer the Prime Minister after October’s election, his legacy will be locked
As we saw in the first part of this report, the Long March of the Kiddy-Fiddlers has been assiduously striving to normalise and legalise paedophilia since at least the late 60s. What a bunch of sleazy French academics and child rapists started in the 70s, with their organised and
It’s over four years since I wrote about Why the left is promoting pedophilia (again). Even as I wrote it, I was painfully aware that it sounded like a loony conspiracy — four years later, it seems eerily prophetic. Of course, that article was written in necessarily broad strokes. I
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I’ve just read a book entitled New Zealand’s History Curriculum: Education or Indoctrination? It makes it clear that Goebbels would have been proud of the new curriculum! When the Government decided that New Zealand school children should learn something of our history, I was
George Ford Smith mises.org George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, the author of eight books including a novel about a renegade Fed chairman (Flight of the Barbarous Relic) and a nonfiction book on how money became an instrument of theft (The Jolly
We are running yet another fantastic book giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of Dr John Robinson’s new book Regaining A Nation; Equality and Democracy. On the 23rd of February, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an online
Roald Dahl’s books are being rewritten. Publisher Puffin has employed sensitivity readers to rewrite Dahl’s books. Words like fat, ugly and female have been removed. For example, “Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now described as ‘enormous’.” Is that much better than fat? To bastardise
What is the oldest uniquely English word? Unsurprisingly, this is a tough nut to crack. After all, English is in many ways a hybrid language, hugely influenced by English history. From invaders (the Danes, Normans and even the Celts) to the invaded (a great many Hindi and Urdu words, from
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
