Bottom Feeders and Rivers of Filth
National Party leader Christopher Luxon: “We don’t just do bottom feeding and just focus on the bottom,” he said. Instead,…
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Filling the gaps for a path to peace
Russia’s assault on Ukraine, with its resulting tragic creation of millions more refugees, continues to receive massive mainstream news media…
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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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PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning: What can bring the Russian war against Ukraine to a close?
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning raise the question: If escalation of the Russian war against Ukraine will occur should NATO or European Union nations intervene to protect Ukraine, who or what can assist in bringing this war to a close?
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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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The road to peace in the world
Let us take as a given that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was an outrageous breach of international law without justification….
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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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Setting a match to democratic freedoms
It has been astonishing to watch the Christchurch City Council try to set a match to democratic freedoms in the…
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After four years of Labour-led governments we have stories like this in the tens of thousands!
I’m sure you have heard many, many stories of woe, and I wouldn’t want to pile on what you already…
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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…