Brownstone Journal ⋆ Page 165 of 328 ⋆ Brownstone Institute

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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Bert Olivier | October 2, 2023 | Philosophy, Society | 9 minute read

Truth-speaking and the Technocratic Cabal

Truth-telling, or in ancient Greek, parrhesia, is something different. It is what one does when you tell or speak the truth exactly as you experience or perceive it, with no punches pulled. You don’t have to call the proverbial spade a shovel (unless this is what it takes to get through to your interlocutor), but you have to speak truthfully without holding back. This is particularly relevant for speaking (or writing) in public, where you run the risk of exposing yourself to harsh criticism.

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Thomas Harrington | October 2, 2023 | Philosophy, Society | 7 minute read

The Social Meaning of Hortatory Yard Signs

Growing up in a nice suburb and studying at a brand-name university one can really come to believe that life is inherently well-ordered, and that “doing well” within it is mostly about getting in with the right people and following the right rules and processes.

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Maximilien Lacour | October 1, 2023 | Government, Society | 9 minute read

Why Did People Comply?

The threat of voluntary lockdowns should lead lockdown sceptics to cast their net beyond the institutions of the State and bring them to confront the harder-to-limn, bottom-up drivers of lockdown like parental socialism. They need to find ways of addressing our collective self-infantilisation and to reemphasize the value and importance of free agency.

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Aaron Kheriaty | September 30, 2023 | Law | 5 minute read

The White House’s ‘Misinformation’ Pressure Campaign Was Unconstitutional

Recent attempts to rebrand the work of the censorship-industrial complex with more anodyne euphemisms—”information integrity” or “civic participation online”—don’t change the fact that this is not disinterested academic research, but cooperation in state-sponsored suppression of constitutionally protected speech, always in favor of the government’s preferred narratives.

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Robert Malone | September 29, 2023 | Government | 10 minute read

Scott Gottlieb’s Role in Creating a New Intelligence Office

Dr. Scott Gottleib has been one of the most influential voices during the COVID crisis. His rapid career advancement and consequent role in the pandemic including lobbying for this new intelligence office during a time when he was NOT working for the government – but rather was working for Pfizer and one of the largest venture capital funds in the world- raises a key question. What is his actual role in the US intelligence community?

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