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The Digital Panopticon
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There is a broader legal context for these extra-legal developments in mass surveillance of civilian populations. Since the war on terror began, Western nations... Read more.
The Battle for Control of Your Mind
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These new digital surveillance and control mechanisms will be no less oppressive for being virtual rather than physical. Contact tracing apps, for example, have proliferated... Read more.
The Psychology of Mimetic Contagion
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Participation in the ritual, which lacks pragmatic advantages and requires sacrifice, demonstrates that the collective is higher than the individual. For this portion... Read more.
This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It
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Our ruling class saw in Covid an opportunity to radically revolutionize society: recall how the phrase “the new normal” emerged almost immediately in the first... Read more.
Nuremberg, 1947
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How and why was the bulwark of 20th-century medical ethics abandoned so quickly, and with so little opposition from the medical and scientific establishment? What... Read more.
Where Is the Bio-Fascist State Headed?
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In these proposed laws we see the features I’ve sketched in previous posts on the Biosecurity Surveillance Regime unfolding around us: the welding of public health,... Read more.
The Specter of Asymptomatic Spread
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A society grounded on “social distancing” is a contradiction—it’s a kind of anti-society. Consider what happened to us, consider the human goods we sacrificed... Read more.
Who Will Support You in a Crisis?
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Some old friends have disappointed while others have surprised me—including some new friends I had not previously known while at the University. Recently, a professor... Read more.
End This Emergency
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Along with fellow scholars at the Ethics and Public Policy Center I sent a letter today to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, urging... Read more.
Why it Is Ethical To Resist the Biosecurity Surveillance State
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The hour is later than we think; twilight is near. Continued compliance with manifestly unjust and often absurd mandates will not return us to a normal functioning... Read more.
Farewell, University of California
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In violation of every basic principle of just and fair employment, the University tried to prevent me from doing any outside professional activities while I was... Read more.
Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination
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Japan’s ministry of health states: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will... Read more.