New Zealand’s culture wars backlash
Perhaps Jacinda Ardern’s most toxic legacy was the deepening of racial divisions between the white European population and the indigenous Maori
Indigenous people
Sunday
Wednesday
Australia’s disastrous indigenous voice referendum
Labor PM Anthony Albanese’s proposal is to set up a federal advisory body to comprise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people representing Indigenous communities
Thursday
This is the golden age of the grifter – and there’s a podcast for every con
Truly we are living in the golden age of the grifter. From Fyre Fest to the WeWork empire to Theranos to the personal development cult NXIVM, we see a charismatic person promising us endless growth, pleasure or wealth and we give them all our money. The con-man economy doesn’t just stop at the men and women leading these frauds and profiting wildly from them. (Some of them go to jail, yes, but WeWork leader/charlatan Adam Neumann was paid many millions of dollars just to go away.) There is also now a podcast, usually sponsored by a security system, for every con. Barbara Kruger’s shopping bag indicting shopping has become a
