Karl du Fresne
The academic hijacking of the arts
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Question: Which of the following writers acquired their skill as a result of attending a creative writing course Shakespeare, Tolstoy or Dickens? Answer: None.
Online bile in the name of free speech
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One of the claims made for the internet is that it has opened up public dialogue on a scale never experienced before.
Paper or e, it's keeping in touch
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I bumped into a friend at the counter in my local Post Shop a few days ago. She expressed surprise when she saw what I was buying.
Capitalism's down, but it's not out
KARL DU FRESNE - © Fairfax NZ News
Cast your mind back to the 1990s. The Berlin Wall had collapsed, and with it the entire rotten edifice of Soviet communism. Democracy and free enterprise were taking root in countries previously kept under repressive state control.
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