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Thomas Harrington | May 12, 2023 | History, Society | 10 minute read

How and Why the Intellectuals Betrayed Us

Will we renew our trust in the dignity, moral autonomy and inherent miraculousness of each individual human being? Or will we, in our absent-minded drift away from the only true sources of life and spiritual renewal—things like love, friendship, wonder and beauty—resign ourselves to the idea of living a new version of medieval serfdom, wherein our bodies and our minds are seen as, and used by, our self-appointed masters as a renewable resource for the execution of their megalomaniacal dreams?

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Josh Stevenson | May 12, 2023 | Education, Policy, Society | 5 minute read

School Closures in 2020/21: What really happened?

At the time of this writing, school closures are still occurring, albeit much rarer than last year. I truly hope we can one day put politics aside and do what’s right for our future and for our kids.

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Bruce W. Davidson | May 12, 2023 | History | 7 minute read

A Brief History of Disease Hysteria

Clearly the Covid panic is only the latest chapter in a continuing chronicle of corruption, exaggeration, and hysteria. For those who were observant and thinking for themselves, it was not a big leap to conclude that something very fishy has been happening in recent years too.

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el gato malo | May 11, 2023 | Government | 4 minute read

E-Verify Is Deeply Dangerous

Do you really want to hand a tool this potent to government and trust that they will “only use it to do nice things”? Because that seems like a very bad bet.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker | May 11, 2023 | Philosophy | 3 minute read

The Treason of the Experts: Foreword

Prepare yourself for a real adventure, one that seems often more like fiction than reality. It is inconceivable that a book like this could have appeared only a few years ago. No one would have believed it if it had. But these are extraordinary times and they require extraordinary and brave minds to operate as tour guides, as with Dante and Virgil. The treason of experts has indeed landed us in very dark places but we can see our way out with the truths elucidated herein.

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David Bell | May 10, 2023 | Government | 7 minute read

The WHO Has Changed and Now It is a Threat

We can meekly accept this new disease-obsessed world, some may even embrace the salaries and careers it bestows. Or we can join those fighting for the simple right of individuals to determine their own future, free from the false public goods of colonialism and fascism. At the very least, we can acknowledge the reality around us.

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Seth Smith | May 10, 2023 | Psychology | 6 minute read

Whatever Happened to the Healing Power of Positive Thinking?

How did belief in the natural healing power of the body and mind get replaced by hysteria, panic, iatrogenesis and a fanatical reliance on Big Pharma? What black hole did all the hippies and granola-types fall into, the people I spent much time with as a kid, while helping my mother at our local food co-op?

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James Bovard | May 10, 2023 | Government, Policy, Vaccines | 8 minute read

Biden’s Sham Compassion for His Covid Persecution Victims

The Biden administration will end the vaccine mandate for health care workers on May 11. But don’t expect politicians and bureaucrats to honor the “First, Do No Harm” rule in the future. Inside the Beltway, federal edicts will likely continue to be “close enough for government work” to sane health care policies.

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Jayanta Bhattacharya | May 9, 2023 | Public Health | 7 minute read

The Illusion of Consensus

The project of science calls for rigor, humility, and open discussion. The pandemic has revealed the stunning magnitude of the political and institutional capture of science.

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Michael Lesher | May 9, 2023 | Government, Society | 8 minute read

They’re Coming To Take You Away

When the monolithic narrative that is all they have been taught lies in ruins, they will replace it not with a rational, informed alternative – for they will know of none – but with whatever satisfies the rage of a population that realizes, too late, that it has been hoodwinked.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker | May 9, 2023 | Public Health | 7 minute read

The Problem of Lost Knowledge: Antibiotic Edition

All of this adds up to a grim picture of mass but often preventable deaths, all because the system did not work to incorporate the previously existing wisdom we learned from a century earlier. We needed merely to rely on the known information gathered from previous periods of history. The system utterly failed and for reasons having to do with regulatory capture and mass panic. Instead, they embarked on a population-wide experiment that created an unfathomable amount of suffering. And they still haven’t admitted it.

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Mark Oshinskie | May 8, 2023 | Philosophy, Society | 5 minute read

The Trouble with the Center

The Japanese say that “The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.” The unwillingness to question the many absurd, destructive mitigation measures reflected a fear of being ostracized or labeled “an extremist.” Passive Americans were far too willing to placate the actual extremists who supported locking down a country, closing schools and testing, masking and vaxxing everyone.

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