Pitch Perfect
How Pope Francis is selling the world on the Catholic Church
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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
The Myth of Steven Joyce
Is he the solution or a big, big part of the problem?
Journalism, History and Forgetting
Why is our past a foreign country?
Climate of Fear
Are we being intimidated into silence about everything that matters?
Hey, Have You Guys Been Watching…
The tedium of talking about TV shows
Food democracy, South and North
The evolution of the politics of food
Public Health : The Silent Crisis
How the public health system is being driven into the ground
‘This Changes Everything’
Climate change and the failure of frat boy politics
Churchill’s Betrayal of Greece
When Churchill sided with Hitler, against the partisans
Rescuing Paul Robeson
The great singer/activist, written out of history during the Cold War, is now being re-evaluated
Katniss Joins The News Team
In Mockingjay Part One, everyone’s working for the media