Year: 2025

Authors: Andrew Klein, PhD, and Gabriel Klein, Research Assistant and Scholar Introduction: The Architecture of a Dependent State From the high command in Washington to the corporate boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the networked lobbyists […]

Jon Chesterson makes his debut in the Top 5 with How bloody well informed are we? It doesn’t look good! published in February coming in at Number 3. This is the dead land*   this […]

By James Moore “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.) The word flâneur is most recently traced to the French language and bears a meaning considered almost pejorative […]

Introduction: Removing the Halo to See the Man Few historical figures are so well known – and so poorly understood – as Jesus. Over two millennia, theology, empire, myth-making, and political convenience have layered stories […]

There are really a lot of good things happening, involving a huge number of good people. My favourite is that very persistent, won’t-be-beat boat – the Golden Rule, with its crew and supporters – Veterans […]

It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record. Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature. The cricket between England and Australia in this, the 2025-6 Ashes series, was a recreational coke […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock​​   Set to take office on January 1, 2026, the Mamdani administration augurs a new era of democratic socialism in the heart of America’s capitalist mecca. Initially, many jaded observers ignored […]

With Gabriel Klein, Research Assistant and Scholar Dedication: For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, she is many things, but […]

We continue our annual top five most widely read articles for the year. Number 4 in 2025 goes to Bert Hetebry for Is it Armageddon?, published in January. I cannot be sure, but I seem […]

WWTD (“What would Trump do”) is no longer a hypothetical. It is a pattern of behaviour repeated so consistently that its outcomes are now predictable. These moves (30 in total) are not a list of […]

Michael McCormack, former leader of the National Party, had a surprising and emotional outburst before the Christmas break. Surprising in that rarely has he shown this level of energy, certainly not when he was National’s […]

Dedication: For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, she is many things, but to us, she will always be Mum. […]

We begin our annual top five most widely read articles for the year. Coming in at Number 5 is Something is wrong – seriously wrong – but I can’t put my finger on it by […]