Sorry, This Is Not Going Away
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Maybe this book by the Covid Crisis Group hopes to be the last word. This will never happen. We are only at the beginning of this. As the economic, social, cultural,... Read more.
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
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No question that the administrative bureaucracies would lock down again under the same or new pretext. Yes, they will face more opposition the next time and trust... Read more.
The Treason of the Experts: Foreword
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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... Read more.
The Problem of Lost Knowledge: Antibiotic Edition
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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... Read more.
America Will Never Give Up Its Ideals
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The cultural crisis and the pandemic of loneliness, not to mention the mass wave of substance abuse and depression, reflects the country-wide shock that all our... Read more.
The Freezer-Truck Canard
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The excuse that we had to lock down because of freezer trucks does not hold water. The lockdown edict was issued on March 16, 2020, following the declaration of... Read more.
Top Ten Quotes from the NYT Fauci Interview
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The New York Times published a very long piece that contains some rather startling admissions, claims, and defenses from Anthony Fauci, the face of lockdowns and... Read more.
Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything
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The clean vs. dirty distinction was once an indicator of class, perhaps a desiderata of germaphobic pathology, even a harmless eccentricity. But in 2020, the obsession... Read more.
What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential
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Think of totalitarian societies like in The Hunger Games, with a District One and everyone else, or perhaps the old Soviet Union in which the party elites dined... Read more.
What the Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about the Ruling Class
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The emergent fissures between the classes – and the diffusions of our ruling class into many sectors public and private – suggest an urgency for a new consciousness... Read more.
Albert Camus on the Denial of Freedom
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And then we realized that the separation was destined to continue, we had no choice but to come to terms with the days ahead. In short, we returned to our prison-house,... Read more.
Twitter’s Extremely Dangerous Attack on Substack
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If this turns out to be deliberate and Elon sticks with it, the effect on chilling research, writing, and free speech will be even worse than when Elon took over... Read more.