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Regulation Nation

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / September 25, 2022 / Law / 6 minute read

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If unelected bureaucrats can make rules/regulations that overstep their authorities, that conflict with the Constitution, that usurp the power of our elected legislators, then we become a totalitarian state. In that scenario, one person in the Executive Branch will then have a supreme power to tell agencies what to do, and those unelected agency actors will carry out the orders with obedience. “I am just following orders” is a very dangerous yet very real mantra in a “Regulation Nation.”

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The Return of Carl Schmitt and His Scheme for Regime Longevity

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 4, 2022 / Philosophy / 9 minute read

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Let us remember that Carl Schmitt despised America and everything it stood for, especially the idea of individual liberty and limits on government. It’s one thing to study his writings in graduate school as a warning to what it means to turn against enlightenment values. It’s another thing entirely to deploy his theories as a viable path to keeping power when it appears unstable, not only in Beijing but also Washington, DC. That should truly terrify all of us.

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The Attempt to Burn Me at the Stake

Mattias Desmet / October 7, 2022 / Philosophy / 18 minute read

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Perhaps for this reason: people might start to take seriously the idea that the corona crisis was primarily a psycho-social phenomenon that marked the transition to a technocratic system, a system in which the government would attempt to claim decision-making rights over its citizens and, step by step, take control of all private space.

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The 70 Seconds that Shook the World

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 2, 2022 / History, Policy / 6 minute read

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Everything followed from that brief moment: lockdown chaos, the closed schools and churches, the end of basic rights, the wrecking of business, and then began the spending, inflating, mad welfare checks, and the demoralization of the population that continues to this day.

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How to Save Your Skin, According to Bankman-Fried and Fauci

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 2, 2022 / Law / 5 minute read

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The madness of lockdowns only intensified the problem. They pretended as if wrong is right and ill- health is health, both physically and mentally. We are so used to lies that many people have grown weary of protesting them. We are so beaten down that we can barely demand that people take responsibility for what they have done. And the perpetuators have become skilled at saving their own skin.

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The Great Covid Panic, by Frijters, Foster, and Baker. Available Now.

Brownstone Institute / September 1, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce the impending publication of The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next, by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker. Combining rigorous scholarship with evocative and accessible prose, the book covers all the issues central to the pandemic and the disastrous policy response, a narrative as comprehensive as it is intellectually devastating. In short, this is THE book the world needs right now.

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State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 4

Ramesh Thakur / January 5, 2023 / Government, History, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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With help from the media, social media and police, people were frightened, shamed and coerced into submission and compliance with arbitrary and increasingly authoritarian government edicts. The intense and unrelenting propaganda unleashed on the people by governments using sophisticated tactics of psychological manipulation and enthusiastically amplified by the media was astonishingly successful in a remarkably short time.

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Witnessing the Media’s Covid Coverage from the Inside

Gabrielle Bauer / November 17, 2023 / Media, Society / 7 minute read

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Covid media, like so much else in modern life, has become hopelessly fractured: the tall, left-facing trees dominate the landscape, telling the story of a deadly virus that we “did the best we could” to manage. Below the tree canopy lies the tangle of weeds that sway in the wind, whispering songs of freedom and warning against the totalitarian impulses that all too readily emerge during crises

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The Process is the Punishment

el gato malo / December 25, 2023 / Government, Law / 8 minute read

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In a legalistic technocracy such as ours, the power to determine what is and is not investigated and what is and is not charged is the true prerogative of princes. It determines who may act abhorrently and who must be always looking over their shoulder for fear of a tap from leviathan.

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A Doctor Cannot Give his Professional Opinion?

Armando Simón / October 12, 2023 / Psychology, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The authorities were wrong in every single aspect of the pandemic: the number of deaths, the number of deaths predicted, the lockdown, the masks, the faux-vaccine, the treatments, the medications, the collateral damage, the refusal to give treatment to the unvaccinated, the ethics. The covid fiasco and the resulting censorship and persecution will go down as one of the classic cases to be taught in medical schools for decades to come.

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