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Brownstone Institute | October 6, 2023 | Law | 5 minute read

The High Stakes in the Legal Battle for Free Speech

Rebuilding from the wreckage of Covid will require reclaiming those fundamental pillars of American society. The freedom to speak was not the first right earned by a people in revolt against ancient-world forms of statism but it might be the most essential. That’s why it is instantiated in the very first amendment to the Bill of Rights. If the regime can control the public mind, they can control everything else too. A loss here is a loss everywhere.

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Charles Krblich | October 6, 2023 | Philosophy | 6 minute read

A Dark Comedy About our Divided America

If you held Lucas’s persuasion, you will re-live all the negative interactions you had with the people of Cole’s persuasion. You will be exposed again to the raw aggression, cruelty, and apathy that you found pervasive during the COVID Pandemic. You will find humor throughout the book for all of the characters. You will laugh out loud at the conclusion.

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Stavroula Pabst | October 6, 2023 | Technology | 8 minute read

EU Digital Identity Wallet Pilots Roll Out Under the Radar

If rolled out hastily, the EU Digital Identity Wallets could ultimately have disastrous and lasting consequences for privacy and civil liberties. And, once implemented, it seems Digital IDs could be difficult to roll back even if unpopular, ultimately nudging people into a technocratic nightmare they cannot easily escape.

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Richard Kelly | October 5, 2023 | Philosophy, Society | 5 minute read

How to Cope in the Midst of Crisis

When we see no repentance but rather a continuation and escalation of the catastrophic policies that got us into this mess, it’s hard to continue to believe it’s just all one big mistake.

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Robert Kogon | October 5, 2023 | Pharma | 2 minute read

Nobel Winner Raised Safety Concerns About Only “Modestly” Effective mRNA Vaccines

Weissman specifically pointed to risks of autoimmune reactions and “pathological thrombus formation” – or blood-clotting – which have become all-too-familiar in the intervening years since vaccine rollout.

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Sinead Murphy | October 5, 2023 | Government, Society | 11 minute read

Safe, Smart, Special

The effect of this conflation of safety and health, and of the attendant mass submission to technical solutions to identified health threats, is that our well-being is nurtured at the level of cohorts and not of individuals. When any one of us stays safe we increasingly acquiesce in the sacrifice of our individual welfare at the altar of one or other computer-modelled universal benefit, of which we can at best merely partake but which is fundamentally indifferent to our flourishing.

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Emily Burns | October 4, 2023 | Censorship, Law, Society | 9 minute read

The Costs and Casualties of Government’s Information Total War

Government censorship reduces our society to just two groups of people: the censors and the censored. While it remains in place, the ranks of the censored will be ever-expanding as the censors require ever more censorship to ensure people continue to disbelieve their lying eyes.

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Rob Jenkins | October 4, 2023 | Education | 8 minute read

A Solution to the Problem of Failed Public Schools

The public schools in many (most?) parts of this country are indeed broken, and there’s no point in trying to “work within the system” to fix them. They’re too far gone. Meanwhile, our children are suffering. All children are suffering. Our only option is to bypass the “system” altogether, take matters into our own hands, and create our own schools, focused on excellence and open to everyone.

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Ramesh Thakur | October 4, 2023 | Policy | 19 minute read

The Many Layers of the Canada-India Diplomatic Dispute

It’s past time that Western commentators woke up and smell the coffee. The era of the West being the arbiter of the moral compass for itself and for everyone else is over. The new assertiveness of several prominent countries among the rest reflects a self-confidence rooted in a position of strength.

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Aaron Kheriaty | October 3, 2023 | Law | 4 minute read

Legal Updates on Missouri v. Biden

The Supreme Court is waiting to see what the circuit court does in this regard before hearing the government’s appeal. Regardless of whether the circuit court expands the scope of the injunction or leaves the current injunction intact, the Supreme Court will then rule on the government’s appeal of the injunction.

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Bobbie Anne Flower Cox | October 3, 2023 | History, Law | 5 minute read

Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes

Why are they backtracking now? Easy answers: 1) they didn’t have the authority to do any of it (all of it was unconstitutional) so they can’t justify and defend it now, and 2) if they can convince you they didn’t do it before, then you won’t mind as much when they do it again.

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Tom Jefferson | October 2, 2023 | Policy | 2 minute read

The Covid Backpedalling Race

All this flipping, backpedalling, hagiography, and revelations based on the retrospectoscope lead us to suspect that the main people in the events of the last three years are increasingly nervous about their role and the consequences of their actions (or lack of).

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