Culture

The Left’s increasing insistence that “It’s our turn now” (to dictate discourse, to set the terms of historical enquiry, to determine what speech is acceptable) is eerily reminiscent of the very power structures it claims to oppose.

I recently stumbled upon an AI chatbot trained on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. I couldn’t have known exactly what to expect, but thought a daily teaching, harvested from the Rebbe’s letters, talks, and public addresses couldn’t hurt. For my first interaction, I pitched a theological softball. The response was eerily […]

“… we don’t have a meritocracy, rather we suffer from a mediocracy.”

“The Messiah is less a narrative, more a trauma response” – Dane Giraud

We Kiwis are an exceptional bunch, aren’t we? Unlike Australia, our flora and fauna is largely incapable of killing us, our pronunciation (while admittedly lazy) lacks that harsh ocker twang. And, of course, let’s not forget we’re modest to a fault. Every nation has its enduring national myths. We tell ourselves stories in part to […]

Settler colonialism is a relatively recent political construct that seeks to dismantle the structures of nations it deems fit its model, such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA. Israel is considered the archetypal settler colonialist project in this ideology. Settler colonialism is a totalising worldview that ignores historical realities to push a divisive […]