Julian Novitz Senior Lecturer, Writing, School of Media and Communication Swinburne University of Technology “Like most people I read a book or two on holiday,” says Stuart, a character in Julian Barnes’ 1991 novel Talking it Over. He does not have time for recreational reading; it must wait until he
Joanne Dickson Edith Cowan University As we welcome in the new year, a common activity across many cultures is the setting of new year resolutions. New year represents a significant temporal milestone in the calendar when many people set new goals for the year ahead. Here in Australia, over 70%
Jeffrey Lindsay Jeffrey Dean Lindsay is a US patent agent, technology scout, and intellectual property (IP) strategist using IP to help client cope with the challenges of disruptive innovation. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University. One of the great paradoxes of China is how
Rome may be famous as the Eternal City, but lost cities have often loomed larger in our collective consciousness. The prototypical lost city is the mythical Atlantis, but very real lost cities have over time emerged from the mists of legend and the sands of time. Troy Almost as legendary
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the founder of Sovereign Research. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Not so long ago, when the dollar was “as good as gold” and so were many other currencies, economists spoke of paper money that wasn’t connected to a precious metal as “irredeemable,” “inconvertible,” “unbacked” or “fiat.” None of those adjectives were complimentary. The world
John Kennedy mises.org John Kennedy is a recent graduate of Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy. Economists such as Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Ludwig von Mises have captured his interest in Austrian economics and inspired him to start writing. When the average person thinks of the Nazis, what
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence 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
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
William West mercatornet.com William West is a Sydney journalist. In April 2022 new tests on the Shroud of Turin – believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ – dated it to the first century. This dating contradicted a 1980s carbon dating that suggested the Shroud was from
Psychologist Julian Jaynes regarded The Iliad and The Odyssey as works of literature that were pivotal in the evolution of the human mind. According to Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, full human consciousness emerged some time between the composition of the first work
Rome, as the saying goes, wasn’t built in a day. But how was it built? The origins of the Eternal City have long been shrouded in myth and legendry, but archaeological investigations over the last couple of centuries have shed light on how a collection of fortified hilltop villages
Richard Fulmer fee.org Richard Fulmer worked as an engineer and a systems analyst, and is now retired and a freelance writer. He has published some 30 articles and book reviews in free market magazines and blogs. With Robert L Bradley Jr, Richard wrote the book, Energy: The Master Resource,
Jenefer Metcalfe mercatornet.com Jenefer Metcalfe is a Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester One hundred years ago, our understanding of ancient Egypt changed forever when the tomb of King Tutankhamun was found on November 4, 1922 in the Valley of Kings. Born around 1305BC, Tutankhamun only ruled Egypt
Joe Perry Georgia State University In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the world-liberator on the cross”
Joan Fitzpatrick Loughborough University Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes and apple sauce accompanied by sage and onion stuffing and followed
