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Tarquinius Anzac Day is a time to reflect and remember. Although sometimes referred to as a time to celebrate, there should be no celebration of war, not even for the victors. Many a valiant word has been said to boost morale and spur men into action. “The object of war
Paul Frijters Gigi Foster Michael Baker brownstone.org Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor
A few weeks I ago I wrote an article for The BFD titled “What Co-Governance Really Means”. As part of the article I wrote the following: If you accept the interpretation [that the Treaty of Waitangi is an unequal partnership] to be the correct one then giving a Maori
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter. The Facts Don’t Matter Explaining the loss of public trust and confidence in the mainstream news
A few weeks ago I wrote The Best of a Bad Bunch and the overripe banana pic is still relevant when talking about Christopher Luxon. He was very green when he became National Party leader, but I think he is ripening nicely. I am aware that not everyone shares this
Capitalist As we approach ANZAC Day for another year, and with yet another failed socialist government crashing around like a bull in a china shop destroying the living standards of the working man, it is important to note they are in good company – following a long, long Labour Party tradition.
Jacinda Ardern has defended the Government’s COVID-19 response in an interview with UK media. Speaking to the BBC, the Prime Minister said it was the “best possible health response”, pointing to New Zealand’s COVID-19 death rate, which is among the lowest in the OECD. Ardern said
Rupert Darwall cfact.org Rupert Darwall is a Senior Fellow at the RealClear Foundation. Warning Long Read. 1400 words. Since Russia attacked Ukraine two months ago, Western governments have been learning the hard way about the critical importance of energy to their national security. Germany’s 20-year, trillion-dollar
Sam Harris once posed the question: If Islam really is a “religion of peace”, then shouldn’t its extremists be extremely peaceful? Instead, “Islamic extremism” is a byword for often appalling violence. Certainly, some Islamic theologians such as Australia’s Imam Tawhidi make a compelling case that, over the centuries,
As we near the end of the second week of the Australian election campaign, events are taking a turn for the dramatic again. Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has been forced off the campaign trail by Covid, Labor’s China ties are coming back to bite, and PM Scott Morrison has
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 ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
For some strange reason, the Washington Post, which obsessively printed everything its team deemed a “lie” from President Trump, abruptly stopped counting the moment Joe Biden took office. Well, perhaps not so strange, really: the legacy media are desperately covering for the Biden White House in any way they can.
Pope Francis, when addressing the Easter crowds at the Vatican, said it was an ‘Easter of War’. This was not absolutely correct as it is the Catholic’s Easter but not Easter for the 30m Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who were celebrating Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Worshippers held
It’s more than a month since I first wondered, Has Putin Been Lured into a Trap? Was the US and NATO game plan a cynical ploy to fight Russia by proxy to the last Ukrainian, leaving them free to deal with China? As it turns out, I’m not
