Taxaphobes tend to irrationally fear and compulsively oppose taxes, even if they strengthen the economy, increase overall prosperity, constitute good fiscal policy, benefit the middle and working ...

In similar fashion over the past week, Trump has now begun to undermine the defence and security of the Western Pacific, by reducing defence ties and strategic planning with South Korea, and making ...

Yet as I’ll explain below, Phil Eastman’s picture book Go Dog. Go! was a by-product of America’s post-war moral panic that Communists were everywhere, and were a deadly threat to the land of the free.

Even in their most desperate moments, it is almost impossible to imagine that either Labour or National would ever embrace a Citizens Income or a Land Tax. That being so, the extensive media analyses ...

Labour’s pursuit of a ‘National-lite’ approach to tax and fiscal policy continues. Its painfully slow release of policy has finally revealed that alongside its anaemic […] ...

Correction: In this article I have mis-stated the rules around casting a vote in a place other than the electorate in which you are enrolled. Please ignore that paragraph in my column, which is ...

True to form, US President Donald Trump has found a way to try and monetise the war he launched against Iran. Trump is proposing to slap a 20% fee on all cargo that sails through the Strait of Hormuz ...

Political myths die hard. For decades it has been taken on faith – all evidence to the contrary – that those business-savvy National Party types really, really know how to run the economy, just as ...

True, it may seem weird to try and warn teenagers about the horrors of war by writing them a story about teenagers who kill each other in a TV reality show. Nine times out of ten, you’d end up with ...

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 ...

The Auditor General’s damning report on the school lunch programme– and the litany of callous bungles it has uncovered – should require associate education minister David Seymour to be offering his ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books features Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel The Dark Is Rising. The antlered horseman on the cover of The Dark is Rising is a depiction of ...