When Information Had Weight
We’re still learning how to integrate these technologies into our lives, much like we did with search engines and the internet – remember when answering a simple historical question required a trip to the library?
Congress’ Shield against Trump’s Hammer of Justice
As President-elect Trump prepares to take office, the swamp cannot be allowed to protect its own. If justice is to prevail, no one—not Schiff, not Swalwell, not Cheney—can be above the law. That includes Congress.
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The Architecture of Control
The mechanisms of cultural control we see today were built over more than a century. To understand how we arrived at this point, we must trace the historical foundations of these systems and the architecture of control that shaped them.
Is Peace Possible Today?
As we the New Year, when one traditionally comes up with ‘resolutions’ for the year ahead, and of initiating creative projects, one has to ask: is all of this just Heideggerian ‘idle talk,’ or is peace a realistic possibility?
Witches, Covid, and Our Dictatorial Democracy
King James I claimed a “divine right” to unlimited power in England, sparking fierce clashes with Parliament. Since the 9/11 attacks, some of the same principles have been advanced in this nation, but few people recognize the historical roots.
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The Light That Shines above the Void
The Christmas story, beyond the current themes of presents, food, and self-gratification, provides a window on how distant the world’s dominant value system is from that which recognition of meaning in life represents.
The Spies Who Hate Us
The most astonishing court document just came out. It is a reverse chronicle of most of what CISA did from February 2020 until last year. We put it on fast view so you can see the entire thing.
The Progressive Authoritarian Tide Retreats
Governments have managed simultaneously to be increasingly out of touch with people’s real concerns and meddlesome busybodies interfering in people’s daily lives. The result is that the liberal democratic order is being stress-tested domestically just like the liberal international order.
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Who Is Wei Cai, German Public Health’s ‘Hidden’ Scientist from Wuhan?
Why was the very existence of the RKI’s staff member from Wuhan redacted in the original official release of the “RKI Files”? Why were the minutes in question, now unredacted and revealing her existence, hidden in the ostensible leak?
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Merry Christmas to the Merchants!
We should all do more to celebrate our local merchants. They connect the community through hard work, great risk, tremendous creativity, and service, and yet too often, they do not get the appreciation they deserve.
A Time of Hope
There is at last a case for hope. Maybe. Regardless, there is proof that our voices matter, that our loss of faith can turn toward rebuilding, that perhaps the people can take back power and get their lives back.
Medicine Needs Critical Thinking, not Critical Theory
The credibility of Public Health institutions has been squandered. It will only be regained through insistence on accountability for past actions, the untangling of the influence of Big Pharma on public policy, and reform in organized medicine and medical education.
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