Its
Always the End of the World As We Know It, New
York Times op-ed, January 1, 2010.
Has
Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? New
York Times op-ed, October 19, 2009.
Shoot
the Piano Player: Joyce Hattos Faked Piano
Recordings, New York Times op-ed, February 26,
2007.
Dazzling,
But To What Effect? (on Peter Jacksons
Lord of the Rings), Los Angeles Times, April
4, 2004. (Also in the New Zealand Herald, the Christchurch
Press, and The Australian.)
Equality
Before the Law Stands Above Race, Christchurch
Press, March 3, 2004. (Also in the New Zealand
Herald.)
Pining For the Golden Age that Never Was, Australian Financial Review, November 26, 2003.
Why
Capitalisms Staggering Success?, Christchurch
Press, October 11, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand
Herald.)
Peter
Ellis and the Memory Wars, Christchurch Press,
September 8, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
Our
Insatiable Appetite for Gloomy News, Christchurch
Press, August 16, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand
Herald.)
Now,
Its the Population Implosion, Christchurch Press,
July 20, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
Goodbye Tyrants, Hello Democracy, Christchurch Press,
June 21, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
The
U.S. Reaction to Terrorism Is Measured and Rational,
Christchurch Press, May 24, 2003. (Also in the New
Zealand Herald.)
Our
Idealism Is About As Cheap As It Comes, Christchurch
Press, April 26, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand
Herald.)
Ruffling
Welfare Feathers, Christchurch Press,
March 29, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
The
Blood-Spattered Despot Has To Go, Christchurch Press,
March 3, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
The
Heretical Environmentalist, Christchurch Press,
February 1, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
Cassandras of the Labs, part of a New York Times
op-ed, The
Science of Tomorrow, January 4, 2003.
The
Gutnick Decision, (on the Australian High Courts
view of the Internet), Christchurch Press, January
4, 2003. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
Zero
Tolerance for Terrorism, Christchurch Press,
December 7, 2002. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
Exit
Saddam and Millions Will Go Free, Christchurch
Press, October 19, 2002. (Also in the New Zealand
Herald.)
Deadly
Greens, Christchurch Press, September
14, 2002. (Also in the New Zealand Herald.)
Multiculturalism
Is a Burning Issue, Press, August 17,
2002.
Language Crimes: A Lesson in How Not to Write, Courtesy
of the Professoriate, in The Wall Street
Journal, February 5, 1999.
Te Papa: National Embarrassment, in The
Australian, June 6-7, 1998, Weekend Magazine,
p. 23.
The
Decline of General Knowledge, Press,
October 11, 1997.
Glasnost
at Radio Moscow, The Press, March 28, 1990.
A
New Russian Revolution, (on Gennady Zhavoronkov
and Moscow News), The Press, May 12, 1990.
The
Smoke-Free Carmen, The Press, December
15, 1994, The Dominion, The New Zealand Herald,
The Danish National Opera, and many websites.
The Difference Between Art and Craft,
a broadcast talk for Radio New Zealand, produced by Elizabeth
Alley, July 11, 1990.
Firewalking in New Guinea, in The Sydney
Morning Herald, December 27, 1991.
The White House
Press Correspondents Dinner,
in Sunday Star Times, May 7, 2006.
The New Victims of Sex Abuse, in The
Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 1993.
Once When My Back
Went Out, in The New Zealand Herald, August
25, 1992.