It’s almost impossible today to comprehend the sheer scale of the horror of the Black Death. Even a relatively minor pandemic, after all, has been enough to send much of the Western world scurrying for the imaginary safety of lockdowns, masks and forever-boosters. As one mediaeval historian recently tried
The appointment of a radical to a position of such sensitivity as Director of He Whenua Taurikura – New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism – bothers me, as it should you. Given her lack of background in intelligence or extremism, except her own, our
familyfirst.org.nz Wokeism – The Marxist Cult That Aims To Destroy? Wokeism is everywhere, especially in the media, academia, politics, our education system and Big Tech. It’s become so pervasive and assertive that it seems cult-like. But where did ‘woke’ come from? Is it something new or simply a
Warning Long read. 1378 words. I see Justin Trudeau as something of a ‘Big Brother’ figure to Jacinda in more ways than one. Not only is he older (50 years old, born 25 December 1971) than Jacinda (41 years old, born 26 July 1981) but he is also taller (1.
Helen M. Alvaré mercatornet.com Helen M. Alvaré Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion. Today, nearly 50
Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. Warning Long read: 1566 words When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full-spectrum dominance”
Cherish Watton University of Cambridge Cherish is a PhD candidate in Modern British History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She studies the history of scrapbooks in Britain during the 20th century, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. She also produces The Scrapbook History Podcast. In 1953, Margaret, an 11-year-old pupil in Huntingdonshire,
Traditional produce markets were an important part of every town and city down through the ages. Once upon a time cities, often because of their sea ports and produce markets, grew around vibrant commercial hubs that were significant sources of commerce and employment and the beating heart and being of
Michael Rectenwald mises.org Michael Rectenwald is the author of 11 books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016), and others. As should be clear by now, Francis Fukuyama’s declaration in The End of History: The Last Man
True story: when I was a kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist. Sure, most kids go through a dinosaur phase, but mine went a lot deeper than that. I actually went on legitimate fossil digs, and everything. Somewhere in the bowels of Melbourne Museum is a massive bone that
Joseph Kast fee.org Joseph Kast is a writer and producer for Pacific Legal Foundation, where he focuses on documentaries, video essays and narrative shorts. Warning Long read: 2667 words Can society be designed? Can an expert engineer alleviate people’s pains and struggles with a good-enough central plan and
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. You would have to be insane not to want some form of gun control after 10 days in which 10 people were gunned down in Buffalo, a church service attacked in San Francisco with
Information Opinion August 1973: Prime Minister Norman Kirk returned from a virtue-signalling overseas trip spent pontificating to everyone about how morally wicked they were compared to him by demanding a nuclear weapons ban (or some such twaddle). A few hours later he was interviewed by some press gallery hack asking
Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org Jeffrey Lord is a contributing writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he went on to work for the Pennsylvania
Adrian De Leon mercatornet.com Adrian De Leon is a historian, poet, and fiction writer at the University of Southern California. At USC, he is an Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and holds affiliations with the Center for Transpacific Studies and the East Asian Studies Center. He teaches
