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On the flight from Auckland to Toyko I finally had a chance to finish reading Yukio Mishima's Sun and Steel, his personal testament on "art, action, and ritual death." Mishima was a Japanese poet and author who is a complicated figure, in large part bec

I want to start this article with an acknowledgment of shared responsibility. When it feels like I am preaching to my conservative readers, I am equally preaching to myself. For far too long, I have seen and participated in partisan politics.

This may seen somewhat strange and provocative, but I believe this is an important point to make out loud and one that should be as easy to say as "water is wet." A nation is a people. "Ethnos" is the Greek word for nation, tribe, and people.

Much was made of an August 2024 poll by the NZ Herald that showed "most New Zealanders support Kamala Harris." Her support was 55% with Donald Trump's at a mere 21%.

Allow me to stay on the theme of demographics for another week.

Stats NZ have finally released the full data of the botched 2023 census. There are lots of things you can glean from it, such as the inclusion of sexuality data showing that nearly 12% of Wellington is gay, which makes sense if you think about it.

This is a partial rebuttal to Nathan Smith's argument that "Christianity is the death of the nation." We have great real-life conversations on this subject, but perhaps there is some benefit in debating some of this out in public.

New Zealand is in a recession and we have been for two years now. Our per capita recession has surpassed the Great Financial Crisis in length after contracting for seven consecutive quarters.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how I supported the treaty principles being put forward by ACT because the treaty is a liberal document.

The establishment of the Maori King Movement was inspired greatly by the English monarchy.

When the Bronze Age Mindset was published in 2018 it became a best seller and popular among many of America's elites. In the global online right it quickly reached the status of cult classic. I never had reason to pick it up, until recently.

Every election cycle, political parties scramble to position themselves as the next governing force, fervently insisting that victory is within reach. But do they truly have a chance every time?

Localism is a principle that is being spoken of more often. There are older terms like subsidiarity that have fallen out of use, in particular because people do not intuitively know what they mean.

There is an ongoing debate that is certain to heat up in the next year around the Treaty Principles.

There are three different stories from the past week that I want to weave together as they speak to the same problem.

At the beginning of this month, I was working on a few different articles. However, over the past week, I experienced something profoundly significant that I must share with you. I had a deeply emotional encounter with the truth.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in NZ from 1950 to 2019 was released this month of July. The government issued a formal apology and made the usual promises to do things better.

On July 13, 2024, Mr. T. M. Crooks attempted to assassinate Mr. D. J. Trump, narrowly missing by mere millimetres. Firstly, our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Trump and his family.

It's been nearly eight years since I started publishing political and cultural commentary. One thing that has changed is the danger of labels.

Birth rates have dropped to an all-time low, as has the percentage of European New Zealanders, and the population is ageing. That's the summary of headlines around fertility data and demographic change in New Zealand.