Marc Ablong

1 week ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Bernard Hickey |Nick Rockel |Marc Ablong

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1 week ago | thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Nick Rockel |Marc Ablong |David Farrier

Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam penned a compelling piece about writing politically. It could be an obvious segue into political blogging, but her piece is so much more. Staying with the political theme, writings like Sidnam’s expose the arrogant dumbassery of the Coalition to defund humanities and social sciences and point to a plausible reason: fear. The Coalition doesn’t like evidence, because it cannot handle it. The Coalition doesn’t like criticism, because it cannot counter it.