Back to the Future

Posted 2:52am Tuesday 5th April 2011

We’re all curious about the future. We can guess at it, make inferences about it, and hope or fear for it, but some people take this a step further and - or claim to belief - that they can tell the future. And people believe them. According to a recent study, 48.8% of New Zealanders believe in Read more...

R.I.P. Journalism

Posted 4:56am Monday 28th March 2011

Charlotte Greenfield discusses the effect that the fast paced internet and the rise of “churnalism” have had on the art of journalism. Try telling someone you want to be a journalist. In my experience the most common response is “but journalism is dying.” As much as Critic hopes this Read more...

Wikileaks; Freedom, Law and Politics

Posted 4:58am Monday 14th March 2011

The New Yorker's George Packer calls him "super-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal." Sarah Palin claims he's "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" whom we should pursue "with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders." Meanwhile, he is the darling of left Read more...

Books are the new Black

Posted 3:50am Monday 28th February 2011

The demise of the hard copy book has been predicted by technophiles since the birth of the personal computer. After all, with surf the channel and youtube at our fingertips, who has the time to struggle through Jane Eyre, or, god forbid, Tolkein? Charlotte Greenfield talked to Politics lecturer Read more...