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The Economists Self-Censored and Inflation Is a Result

Mikko Packalen / September 21, 2022 / Censorship, Economics, Public Health / 11 minute read

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Since the Spring of 2020, economists have had a strong incentive to censor themselves about the costs of covid measures for fear of being seen as out of step with the hastily achieved consensus that covid measures came without any significant costs to the public. Economists dismissed any dissent from the lockdown consensus. On Twitter and elsewhere, those few who dared dissent were labelled cranks or grandma killers.

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The Market Still Loves You

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 21, 2022 / Economics, Philosophy / 5 minute read

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The theme is meaning. Not big meaning but meaning in small things. The meaning of everyday life. Finding friendship, mission, passion, and love in the course of working out one’s life in the framework of a commercial society, which should not be narrowly construed as only a way of paying bills but rather should be seen as the instantiation of a life well lived. We were not doing a good job of that, so my thinking was to inspire people to come to love what we take for granted.

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If It’s Over, Why the Continued Emergency?

Paul Elias Alexander / September 20, 2022 / Law / 6 minute read

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But America lost most lives due to the lockdowns and school closures, and we lost above all, our freedoms. It is time to allow America to be unshackled from these COVID policies. Completely. Living life freely once again, taking reasonable precautions, unfettered by government’s failed COVID lockdown policies whereby not one has worked!

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The Constitution Is the Answer

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / September 20, 2022 / History, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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If the politicians don’t uphold the Constitution, then it becomes useless. If the people don’t require the politicians follow the Constitution, it is useless.

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Adverse Effects of the Pfizer Vaccine Covered Up by the Israeli Ministry of Health

Yaffa Shir-Raz / September 20, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 11 minute read

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So if Israel did not in fact have a functioning adverse event monitoring system in place and its data was a fiction, and even if when it did launch a proper monitoring system a year too late, with analysis of the system’s findings completely ignored and withheld – what was the FDA really relying on? What were all those regulators relying on?

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It Ends as it Began: As a Political Ploy

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 20, 2022 / History, Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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It should rattle any concerned citizen of the US – or just any rational person – that such a massive issue as a deadly pandemic could be turned on and off by perception management by powerful elites in government, tech, and media. And yet, the evidence is overwhelming that we have seen just such an operation at work over these pandemic years.

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Why did the Left Fail the Covid Test So Badly?

Thomas Harrington / September 19, 2022 / Media, Philosophy, Society / 12 minute read

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I am truly grateful for all that John Pilger and his companions in the leftist propaganda dissection cadres have taught me over the years. But as Ortega y Gasset said, a public intellectual is only as good as his ability to remain at the “height of his times.” Sadly, this group of otherwise talented individuals has failed this test, badly, over the last two-plus years.

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How COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Skew Campus Viewpoints

Paul Diller / September 19, 2022 / Education, Society / 4 minute read

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The collateral effects of the mandates seem undeniable. Universities have not just driven away students and faculty more skeptical of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters; they are also driving away students and faculty with different views on all sorts of other issues.

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Reconsidering Lockdowns

Jonah Lynch / September 19, 2022 / Society / 7 minute read

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All you gentle readers who are tired of talking about lockdowns, please find enough patience, humility, and love for the facts

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Lockdowns and Masks Hurt Kids Even Worse Than We Thought

Ian Miller / September 18, 2022 / Masks, Society / 7 minute read

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Simply moving on and allowing them to get away with what they’ve done can’t be the answer — there must be a reckoning with how the institutional left banded together to put ideology above reality.

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Service and Restraint: Lost Principles of Governance

Robin Koerner / September 17, 2022 / History, Society / 12 minute read

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The Queen acted always with great restraint, and never upon others in a way unconsented to, whatever her own views were. Modern politics, driven by the Administrative State, is based on an opposite principle, felt even more deeply and widely than usual in recent times: it regards itself as able to do exactly as it chooses to anyone it chooses, based entirely on its own immediate view of a prevailing situation.

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Why So Many Cling to Covid Panic

Mark Oshinskie / September 16, 2022 / Society / 4 minute read

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Instead of admitting this, governments and media persist in their campaign of terror, lies and bogus zero-Covid measures. Because to stop lying now would be to admit that it’s all been a delusion. And politically and morally, they can’t bring themselves to do that.

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