America, The Gated
Immigration has become a polarising issue in the 2016 US election campaign
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Defending the Homeland
Women warriors, and how the US entertainment industry handles Middle East politics
In A New York Groove
NYC rekindles its love affair with its outlaw past
Syria Eats Itself
Countering the logic of the war economy in Syria
Safety In Numbers
New Zealand’s new export industry : predicting child abuse
Uber Dreaming
How Uber CEO Travis Kalanick drove right over Stephen Colbert, and a few inconvenient truths
Flying With Food Allergies
For those with allergies, air travel can be a real hazard
‘Disruption’ Is For Losers
Its time to retire the corporate world’s favourite buzzword
Coney Island, Baby
Under the pier, down by the sea…
Searching For The White Wail
White hipsters, Art Pepper etc
Pitch Perfect
How Pope Francis is selling the world on the Catholic Church
Climate of Opportunity
An interview with the Greens new co-leader, James Shaw
Secret Justice
How should the secret evidence gathered by security agencies be handled by New Zealand courts?
At The Crossroads
The Democratic Party (once again) tries to engage with the realities of ordinary Americans
Lawyers Don’t Surf
Point Break : Is there any point to a reboot of one of the greatest action movies of the 1990s?
Talent To Burn
Bearing mute witness to America’s Got Talent, and to the urge to compete
Castles in The Square
Has the building of convention centres become our new cargo cult ?
Down The Up Ladder
A diagnosis for the age of income anxiety
Banning The Bag, & Bagging The Ban
The politics of controlling the plastic in our lives
In The City Of The Precariat
The subsistence existence is an incoming tide
Mad To the Max
Fury Road drives its metaphors to hell, and back
Out Of Control
How and why New Zealanders have come to be putting in longer hours at work…
What’s To Commemorate?
The Making of Gallipoli into a Marketable Memory
The Politics of Vaccination
Is the Key government pandering to people who oppose vaccination on principle?
Artificial Intelligence: Real Anxieties?
Is the film Ex Machina – and its depiction of Artificial Intelligence – a sign of a world soon to come?
Migrant smugglers: monsters or saviours?
We can’t help the plight of refugees by concentrating solely only on the people-smugglers
Nausea And Virtual Reality
For better or worse, the world of virtual reality is virtually upon us
War At Ground Level
Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is still the greatest World War I film.
Free Films, On Youtube
Make your own film festival, from movies available free online.
Water In The Bank
In the Midst of California’s Drought