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Why Rogan Is Tied to the Stake While Maher Gets a Free Pass

Michael Riches / February 9, 2022 / Media / 14 minute read / Articles

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Uncontrolled opposition is the biggest fear of the political and corporate establishment, even to media conglomerates. Rogan never trained to be a journalist, didn’t climb any social ladders to reach the level of the elites, has never relied on establishment advertising dollars, and yet attracts 11 million viewers and listeners to each podcast episode, eclipsing popular network TV programs.

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The Limited Hangout of the Mandaters

Thomas Harrington / February 8, 2022 / Law, Masks, Philosophy, Policy, Society / 4 minute read / Articles

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There is nothing more central to the idea and practice of freedom than bodily autonomy. It is the basal freedom from which all others are derived. Without it—as the history of slavery starkly reminds us—all other liberties are comparatively ornamental.

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“The Honking Will Continue”: A Conversation With BJ Dichter

Laura Rosen Cohen / February 8, 2022 / Law, Policy / 7 minute read / Articles

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BJ Dichter is one of the organizers of the Canadian Truckers for Freedom Convoy and its media spokesman. We had an opportunity to speak with him earlier this week about the situation in Ottawa, the convoy’s strategy and about some of the political elements that are at play as this extremely fluid situation makes headlines and continues to inspire people all over the world.

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Seven Urgent Lessons of Lockdowns

Alan Dowd / February 8, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 13 minute read / Articles

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The destruction wrought by the lockdowns has many fathers—computer-modelers who terrified federal policymakers with guesses dressed up as certainties; health officials who were given the levers of government without any sense of or care for unintended consequences; governors who ruled by executive fiat.

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Most of Our High School Lives Behind Masks

Brownstone Institute / February 8, 2022 / Masks / 3 minute read / Articles

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Students have begun to protest against mask mandates, and one group in an Illinois high school has received some national attention for their position. The group is Voices Unmasked and they are associated with a suburban high school outside of Chicago that has long imposed a severe masking policy.

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The CDC’s Study on Natural Immunity Explained

Brownstone Institute / February 8, 2022 / Vaccines / 1 minute of reading / Articles

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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control has released a fascinating study on comparing hospitalization with Covid-19 immunity status, thus addressing a topic of pressing concern for public health. The study, published in the January 28, 2022 weekly, carries the self-explanatory title “COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations by COVID-19 Vaccination Status and Previous COVID-19 Diagnosis — California and New York, May–November 2021.”

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Who Is To Blame for Vaccine Hesitancy?

Donald Boudreaux / February 7, 2022 / Vaccines / 7 minute read / Articles

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If governments and public-health officials are looking for people to blame for vaccine hesitancy, they need only look in the mirror.

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The Meaning of the Covid Street Art

C. Travis Webb / February 7, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 6 minute read / Articles

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So you’ll forgive the people who don’t want to play a bit part in the weird, hyperventilating Covid reality show the media’s producing 24-7. You’ll understand when the art appearing on their streets takes an edge, bucktooths a lower lip, and throws you the bird.

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Brownstone Institute at Six Months

Brownstone Institute / February 6, 2022 / Education, History, Philosophy, Policy, Society / 7 minute read / Articles

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Freedom is not an option, despite what they say. It is not something granted to us by the powerful at their discretion. It is a universal right, one protected only by a culture that loves it, institutions that guard it, and people who fight for it. We can get there. We are in a position to help prove this, to rebuild, and work for a world in which nothing like this ever happens again.

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The High Costs of the Appearance of Safety

Steve Templeton / February 6, 2022 / Public Health, Society / 13 minute read / Articles

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The public demanded control over something that couldn’t be controlled. Local, state, and national leaders, whether they understood that they couldn’t actually offer increased safety or not, began to offer the next best thing—The Appearance of Safety.

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Mask Studies Reach a New Scientific Low Point

Vinay Prasad / February 6, 2022 / Masks / 8 minute read / Articles

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The White House is asking Spotify to censure Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan should ask the CDC to censure MMWR. The truth is the CDC has put out so many papers that borderline propaganda, that they create the space for people to seek alternative information. They have lost trust.

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