Author Archives: AHD
Goodbye Letter to Christchurch
AHD’s Goodbye Letter to Christchurch. Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
Steerage with Steven
AHD republishes the extended version of an article published recently in ‘Canta’. Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
The Quinella
AHD takes a look at the University of Canterbury’s recent Quinella: Honorary doctorates for David Caygill and Ruth Richardson. Continue reading
Filed under Politics
The Case of the Missing Argument
AHD’s (overdue) response to the University of Canterbury regarding the disestablishment of American Studies. Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Self-indulgence
Rhodes Scholarships come and go, but tons are forever. Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
On being all New Zealanders
Another Waitangi Day, another protest, another Pakeha sob about the politicization of our ‘national day’. Can’t we all just get along, as beer drinking, flag flying, All Blacks watching, land confiscating, treaty reneging New Zealanders, David Shearer seems to ask. A … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
Atrophies: CUP Does Grammar
This post is a response to CUP’s A Happy Announcement. * I’m marking at the moment, and, as usual, I am wondering what I did in a past life to bring this upon myself. Dante had it all wrong: the … Continue reading
Filed under Literary Criticism
Full Marx
I’m preparing a lecture at the moment on the topic of work/labour in The Simpsons; at three hours, I have more than enough time to belabour the point that neoliberal capitalism is killing us all, that women are exploited through … Continue reading
Filed under Literary Criticism
The Last Words of a Dying CEO
What happens when the ’98 per cent of CEOs who support National’ realize that MMP is popular among the constituency, and that, however hard Ruth Richardson tries First Past the Post will never come back? They try to implement it under … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
