Text Katie Pickles Professor of History University of Canterbury Spoiler alert: this review contains plot details of the film. At last – after the hype and advance mass-merchandising – the Barbie movie is here. Part spoof, part action fantasy, part Barbie doll virtual museum, it’s a full-blown product placement experience – but
Benjamin Seevers Benjamin Seevers is a Mises Institute Fellow and holds a BA in economics from Grove City College. He will begin his PhD in economics at West Virginia University in fall 2023. His research interests include private governance, public policy, and libertarian ethics. fee.org Netflix’s new hit
In a previous article, I challenged you to do something about woke Hollywood. It seems that one film could show conservatives that complain about the film industry how to beat Hollywood. In the article I mentioned a film called Sound Of Freedom produced by Jim Caviezel. With the tagline ‘God’
Axelheart I travelled to Paris in my early twenties – while on the quintessential OE based in England – visiting the usual tourist spots, including Versailles. Despite my ignorance of the background of the French Revolution, one doesn’t need a history degree when confronted with the magnitude of the Palace of
The collected Lushington D. Brady Vol. 1 Review Let me start by coming clean. I am anything but an impartial reviewer. If there was a Lushington D. Brady Fan Club, I’d be a life member. I still remember the day I read his first column on what was then
Dawn Slusher newsbusters.org An Australian dramedy that was released on Netflix in March was trending in June, so we decided to check it out. Be glad we did so you don’t have to. Looks like Hollywood’s tendency towards paedophilia – or the rights of “Minor Attracted Persons” as
Shouting Across the Ditch: The Collected Lushington Brady Vol 1 is, as you guessed, the first volume of a collection of essays by BFD author Lushington D Brady. I have to admit I’m a bit of a Lushington fanboy so you have to excuse me for being a tad
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
I recently attained the grand age of 62 years old and to my delight received a beauty of a cookbook as a birthday present from my youngest daughter Mika and her man Shahar. Shahar, just back from a business junket in London, was lucky enough to be wined and dined
John Sandford is, to my mind, one of the foremost exponents of the cop story of the present time. He has written many books featuring an overlapping cast of characters, and the latest is set in the Biden-era USA amid the Covid mask days. It features his favourite detective, Lucas
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 were told
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
Chris Wilson Programme Director, Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies University of Auckland Since the horrific attacks in Christchurch in 2019 there has been substantial and growing attention paid to the extreme right in New Zealand. The pandemic – and the conspiracy theories and anti-government sentiment that developed in response – increased
Tiger Charles Bean – If people really knew – one man’s struggle to report the Great War and tell the truth by Ross Coulthart, Harper Collins. Censorship is nothing new. Censorship by whom we might call the “good guys” is nothing new either. By censoring the message, the truth can be
Rebecca Wynne-Walsh Lecturer in Film, English and Creative Arts Edge Hill University Horror cinema in the 21st century is moving beyond the uncanny children of The Omen (1976), The Exorcist (1973) or The Bad Seed (1956). Instead, contemporary horror fare is presenting audiences with uncanny copies of children – companions who
Rob Paterson REGAINING A NATION EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY (2022) 238 pages Author: Dr John Robinson PhD Main Topic: The Benefits of Colonisation for New Zealand Publisher: Tross Publishing (RRP $35 incl. postage) Email : trosspub@gmail.com Rating 5 Star ***** Target audience: All Kiwis Reviewer: Rob Paterson, Retired Lawyer, Tauranga Book
