What a High-Trust Society Looks Like up Close
Seoul is a reflection of what a high-trust society with shared values looks like… and of what a country can become when it does rational, sensible things to focus on a better future.
World Politics
The Five-Letter Word Media Won’t Say
From a failed airline hijacking to riots in France, our inability to name causes and motivations is undermining our ability to respond to reality.
The New Face of an Old Hatred
It is the raw, ignorant hatred that expelled Jews from medieval kingdoms, burned them in pogroms, restricted them from universities, and fed them into gas chambers. It requires no reason. It will simply endure unless, finally, good people stop it.
Why Does Anyone Still Take Socialism Seriously?
A devaluation of one’s fellow humans based on irrationality and sheer ignorance is the dark truth underlying socialism’s appeal.
Beyond the Boats Invading Our Mother Country
The only souls still possessed of political zeal are those whose fervour is the fervour of the wolf. What they see is a flesh-and-blood civilisation, meaty and unguarded, to be looted for the survival of their own mangy pack. I mean the commies, of course: the Greens, Labour,
Standing Against the Myanmar Junta
The revolution in Burma demands neither humanitarian aid nor neocon style intervention from Australia: what is needed is solidarity and a commitment to individual sovereignty, a market economy, federalism, and liberal democracy.
Why Didn’t My Generation Change the World?
Some surprising facts about the Baby Boomers.
MAD and the Lessons of Berlin and Cuba
The deployment of a navy nuclear armed sea-launched cruise missile is an added theater capability that can deliver deterrence and help keep the peace. It is supported by the US Navy and funded by Congress.
Traitors in Our Midst
Homegrown subversives conspire with a Netherlands NGO to try and ruin New Zealand.
Vague AI Regulation Can Threaten Our Edge
The race against China is not a simple rhetorical device utilized by defense hawks. It is the absolute defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century.
Protest on Anniversary Weekend of Oct 7
NZ Against Hamas is holding a counterprotest. Victim blaming on the anniversary weekend of October 7 of all days is a sickening act of evil.
Diesel Prices Push Farmers to the Brink
Many of them now find themselves on the brink of quitting because of the immense financial pressure that has been placed upon them.
How Much Climate Change™ Angst Is Propped up by China
Potentially, 50 years from now people may look back and marvel at how easily (and cheaply) China could wind up the Western liberals, and how they got away with it.