Sherry Zhang asiamediacentre.org.nz Sherry Zhang is a writer based in Tamaki Makaurau. In 2019, she was the Asia New Zealand Foundation’s media intern in Jakarta. She has written for Starling, and The Spinoff. She’s the editor of queer zine The Agenda, and QTBIPOC creative collective Ahua.
James Bradshaw mercatornet.com James Bradshaw works for an international consulting firm based in Dublin, and has a background in journalism and public policy. Outside of work, he writes for a number of publications, on topics including politics, history, culture, film and literature. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Richard Morrison fee.org Richard Morrison is the Senior Editor at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. How did corporate America, long considered one of the most conservative American institutions, become a lead protagonist in a culture war over all manner of progressive activism? We now have a routine spectacle of corporate
Every August we go through the same dreary ritual: a bunch of hand-wringing journalists and academics witter about whether the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “justified”. To the people who lived and fought Imperial Japan, though, the issue was beyond question. For many of that generation, the
Dr Ian Froggatt PhD Author of “Six Politically Incorrect Essays” Book Review: “Kindness” by David Iles Few books have gripped me to such an extent that I couldn’t put them down and I ended up reading them in two days. “Kindness” was one. Perhaps partly it’s because I
Dr. Jay Lehr PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Dr Jay Lehr is a Senior Science Analyst at the CFACT site, and he is the author of more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. There have been dozens of good books written in the past decade
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
It’s not often that I read a book which fatally undermines its whole premise in its own introduction, but that’s just what The Great Reset does. Yet its authors have their heads so far up their own arses that they plainly fail to notice the gigantic rake they
Kyla Hatcher fee.org Kyla Hatcher is a freelance writer and editor who recently graduated from New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, ID. Her heroes include John Steinbeck, C. S. Lewis, and Thomas Sowell. Many Americans today continue to talk past each other in their discussions of justice. Progressives often
Francis Forde The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. Hardcover – October 6, 2020 by Gad Saad In his efforts to stand up to the infantile coddling which is taking place within western institutions, the big bold and beautiful Gad Saad has pulled no punches. In his latest
Alysse ElHage mercatornet.com Alysse ElHage is Editor of the IFS Blog, Family Studies, and a freelance writer. Prior to joining the Institute for Family Studies, she served as associate director of research at the North Carolina Family Policy Council, and as associate editor of Family North Carolina magazine. Maybe
Lili Pâque University of New England In Dervla McTiernan’s book, The Scholar, published earlier this year, women are consistently used as the “fall guys” for men with high aspirations. Two young women are killed when they uncover fraud. Another female colleague is then framed for the murders. Before writing
Kevin John Brophy University of Melbourne In a new series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on page and on screen. As a detective’s apprentice for over 60 years now, I’ve had work-experience stretches in the offices of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Hercule
Lisa R. Pruitt University of California, Davis Film critics have had nary a good word to say about Netflix’s new movie “Hillbilly Elegy.” Reviewers varyingly called it “Oscar-Season B.S.,” “woefully misguided,” “Yokel Hokum,” “laughably bad” and simply “awful.” I admit to delight when I read professional critics
Hiding in a Rotorua bookstore last Wednesday – coward that I am – while the troops were performing the curious female ‘shopping’ ritual, and leafing through the tomes on display I happened upon this passage: “Ross Hayton is a jovial, bearded physician who has done so many colonoscopies in his life that
