Every Friday, Werewolf is re-publishing some essays about classic children’s book, that I began writing in 2009. This essay on Badger’s Parting Gifts has been slightly updated: ...
Pauline Hanson is one of the few politicians able to make Winston Peters look like a team player. Hanson’s “my way or the highway” dominance of her party is, of course, one of the things that her ...
About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will be re-published here, every Friday. The series ...
Footnote One: In theory, a tit for tat race to the bottom could now ensue, as Democratic states actively gerrymander their districts in response. In California, California governor Gavin Newsom has ...
In the wake of WW2, immigration policy was driven by a mixture of compassion for the refugees of war, and by a less admirable desire to replenish our ranks (preferably) with the racial stock of the ...
About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will […] ...
Clearly, last year’s fears of a stockmarket “AI bubble” have long gone. AI firms and related stocks are now being treated as the backbone of American prosperity, and market saviours. At the same time, ...
The recently infamous “I’m the CEO/ Your job is the Prime Minister” exchange between Christopher Luxon and Tova O’Brien should be a defining moment in Luxon’s downward trajectory as the leader of the ...
Reportedly, the on again, off again debate between Ruth Richardson and Nicola Willis may be on again. Fabolous. Nothing can help us better understand a wildly contentious issue than having someone ...
The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.
The US rationale for the blockade/entire war is that Iran must never, ever be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and that Iran has always refused to give up that goal. As US President Donald Trump ...