Evil in a Box
That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and necessarily time-bound case of evil “in a box.” Why?
Bedard: From Covid Amnesty to Covid Amnesia
In a recent piece in the New York Times, Dr. Rachel Bedard – who specializes in “medicine and criminal justice” – said the world needs to move on from the whole Covid catastrophe, the pandemic response, and the wholesale destruction of liberties.
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Schopenhauer: Humanity’s Fall to Irrationality
One cannot ignore the possibility that certain actions could occur which may, indeed, trigger the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and then, in retaliation, by NATO countries, or vice versa. One can only hope that cool heads will prevail.
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Recession Since 2022: US Economic Income and Output Have Fallen Overall for Four Years
In this study we aim to quantify some of the more egregious biases in inflation statistics in order to get us closer to a true understanding of inflation since 2019, hence of true economic growth since 2019.
Walz’s Covid-19 Legacy
I observed Governor Tim Walz’s handling of the 2020 Covid-19 crisis in Minnesota with increasing concern. What started as a two-week pause quickly evolved into a series of questionable policy decisions that contravened scientific reasoning, constitutional rights, and fiscal responsibility.
Government Can Fix neither Food nor Farm
With the national health crisis, food debauchery, and farm exploitation suddenly jumping to headlines via RFK, Jr., numerous people have offered solutions but nothing I’ve seen truly gets to the heart of the problem.
The Man Who Shouts Fire in a Crowded Theater
Walz resembles the man who shouts fire in a crowded theater. Claiming a great danger, he incites people to fall in with a political program. But, having heard the shouting—“Save democracy!”—we have some time to discuss and reflect.
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Prop One: A Trojan Horse of Epic Proportions
I was interviewed last week about a proposed amendment to our Constitution here in New York, “Proposal Number One” (aka “Prop One”). If we don’t stop it here, then it will come to your state sooner or later.
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Hope and Moral Repair
It is all too easy, when in the middle of a crisis, to give up. But to fix what ails us, we don’t have to fix everything in one moment or one action. We only need to make a start.
N. Ireland’s Totalitarian Public Health Bill
The N. Ireland Department of Health is seeking control of all of us by introducing totalitarian legislation governing your premises, your property, and your documents plus forced vaccinations and forced medical examinations.
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China Enters the Economic Doom-Loop
China’s ruling Politburo held an emergency economic meeting and decided to crank up the money printers to 11, pumping money to consumers, to banks, to property developers, basically to anybody who might spend it.
Don’t Let the ‘Infaux Thugs’ Close Down Debate
Today’s censors wield cudgels with the word ‘information’. Content they don’t like they call ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’. The justification is fake. Pretending to protect people from bad information by means of censorship may be called infaux thuggery.
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