Trusting Ourselves To Do The Right Thing
IN THE END, the question comes down to this: can human-beings be trusted to do the right thing? If you…
Chris Trotter
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Eighty-One Thousand Votes.
IF THE GREENS proceed with the constitutional changes mooted by political commentator Matthew Hooton, then their electoral future is bleak….
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America’s To Lose: But the Outcome of “The Great Game” Remains Unclear.
THE GREAT GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGE confronting the United States is that the Americas are separated from Eurasia by two broad oceans….
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Forgetting To Remember: News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
WATCHING THE NEWS coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War is a struggle. The entire Western news media, our own included, have…
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Indigenous Imperialist?
THE APPOINTMENT OF NANAIA MAHUTA as New Zealand’s foreign affairs minister was hailed as a triumph for indigenous peoples everywhere….
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Double Standards: What’s Evil In Ukraine Is Apparently Good For The Solomon Islands.
THERE HAS TO BE something wrong with us. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. Some sickness of mind and…
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MUST READ: Unsubscribing From Freedom
ACADEMIC FREEDOM is one of those “public goods” that most people seldom question. Even in New Zealand, a country not…
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Keeping Things Simple
TO EXPLAIN IS NOT TO JUSTIFY. How astonishing, that in 2022 so few people appear to grasp this simple truth….
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Democracy’s A Drag.
LET’S FACE IT, Democracy’s a drag – in every sense of the word. The beatnik sense: It’s drag, man. Meaning…
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From Emancipation To Denunciation: The Sad Descent of the Contemporary Left.
HOW TO PROMOTE a radical left-wing agenda when so few people today can even imagine such a thing? The emancipatory…