Why did so many governments go so nuts at once, disregarding their own laws, traditions, and values by bludgeoning their own people with the excuse of science that has turned out to be almost completely bogus?
Copycat Governments: How the World Locked Down Read Journal Article
The gains secured through corruption and abuses of power are likely to remain in the claws of those who grabbed them, a prediction supported by the scarcity in human history of examples in which those who abused their positions have later been punished and stripped of their wealth.
Will There Be Backlash? Read Journal Article
All despotisms – or almost all despotisms – believe that it is for the good of the people that they are being deprived of their freedom of action.
A Conversation with Lord Sumption Read Journal Article
Government should not gamble with the lives and livelihoods of their people by taking extreme measures in the hope that they might work.
The Deprecation of Human Rights in the Age of Covid Read Journal Article
We find ourselves in an emergency situation. The world is tottering between two visions of human life. One centers on freedom and all its creativity, including cities, arts, friendships, technology, and great lives. The other centers on despotism and the relentless drive back to a state of nature: foraging for food, living in rural settings, stuck in one place, and dying young.
The Wrecking of New York City: Accident or Design? Read Journal Article
Are we killing ourselves through our cosmopolitan bustle of business, technology, immigration, cultural exchange, agriculture, and exogamous sex? The distinguished historian and transatlantic pundit-philosopher Niall Ferguson says so in this laboriously learned, encyclopedic catalogue, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.
No, Niall Ferguson, Travel and Trade Improved Health Read Journal Article
Many countries have economies reliant on tourism, but it seems the businesses created to serve the tourists weren’t asked their opinions about this overreach. It’s worth adding that investment is the driver of all economic progress, but with travel limited, how many interesting concepts have been suffocated by a lack of exposure to the financiers whose allocations would, in normal times, propel them to greater heights?
The Travel Bans Achieve Nothing for Public Health Read Journal Article
No matter how much the public narrative tries to ignore it, no matter how much the media attempts to suppress serious discussion, critical voices are becoming louder by the day. Ever more people in both the old and the new Europe are demanding their fundamental rights and freedoms back.
Covid Chaos and the Collapse of European Unity Read Journal Article
What is different for COVID-19? Why the different standard or application of core immunology or virology principles? Some say the guidance on Covid is purely political and has zero to do with science or evidence.
Why Does the CDC Recognize Natural Immunity for Chicken Pox but Not Covid? Read Journal Article
To today’s Americans, appearances are everything — we are afraid to be different, lest it make our friends uncomfortable (maybe we will lose one, whatever will we do?!) We have ceased caring about truth and authenticity entirely. We have tacitly agreed as a society that true things should be hidden whenever they conflict with what is “popular”; with what everyone “smart” and “cool” is doing. Anyone acting outside of these boundaries — the “eccentrics” of centuries past, considered by Mill to be geniuses — are today’s untouchables.
Are You Ready and Willing to Be Free Again? Read Journal Article
International tourist arrivals are down by 85% from 2019. A third of the world’s borders are shut. There seems to be no movement in the direction of reversing this disaster and reinstituting the wonderful world of 2019. In fact, there seems to be very little awareness that this has happened to us much less of the terrible consequences. Forget the freedom of movement; the Biden administration has only promised to open up “when it is safe to do so.”
These Travel Restrictions Must End Read Journal Article
Free people of the world are duly warned: embark on this path at your own risk. What you take for granted today may well be gone for good
How Quickly Our Freedoms Were Taken Away Read Journal Article
