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We Need Truth and Justice

Michael Senger / April 12, 2022 / History, Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The free world is stuck tallying the costs of its catastrophic foray into totalitarianism. Most of these costs were predicted well before the policies were ever implemented. Hundreds of millions have gone hungry. An entire generation of children has been abused and traumatized. Young people were robbed of some of their brightest years. Small businesses and those who depended on them lost their livelihoods. Trillions of dollars were transferred from the world’s poorest to its very richest.

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An Interview with a Very Dangerous Man

Thomas Harrington / September 13, 2022 / Media / 11 minute read

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Or I could ask, for example, how it is that the number of deaths per million in that terrible and irresponsible country called Sweden, where there were no generalized lockdowns and no mandatory masking, are less than in Spain with its rather strict confinement regime? Or about the fact that in the US many states without lockdowns and without the mandatory public masking (e.g. Florida, Georgia and now Texas) have the same or better results in cases and deaths than several states (California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts) with much stricter “mitigation” regimes?

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A Small Town, Lost to Lockdowns and Mandates

Naomi Wolf / November 8, 2022 / History / 13 minute read

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When you drive to Millerton, it looks like you are driving into the heart of archetypal America; Psychically, emotionally, there is blood flowing in the streets; and bodies are stacked up, invisible, in front of the candy stores, the high end wine stores, the pretty memorials to the World War Two dead; outside the farmers’ market on Saturdays, outside the tapas bars.

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The Trouble with the Center

Mark Oshinskie / May 8, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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The Japanese say that “The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.” The unwillingness to question the many absurd, destructive mitigation measures reflected a fear of being ostracized or labeled “an extremist.” Passive Americans were far too willing to placate the actual extremists who supported locking down a country, closing schools and testing, masking and vaxxing everyone.

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Uses and Abuses of the Defense Production Act

Jordan Schachtel / June 6, 2022 / Policy / 2 minute read

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These are emergency powers granted to the executive with a precedent for being enacted during an actual war. These powers allow the president to compel private companies to work with the government on developing material goods that are supposed to be used for national security purposes.

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A Fantasy of Virus-Free Air

Steve Templeton / November 19, 2021 / History, Public Health / 12 minute read

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In our current safety culture-driven pandemic response, any risk of infection is deemed unacceptable, and those who highlight potential costs of mitigation measures are labeled irresponsible and dangerous. However, safety worship and building engineers might override old-fashioned common sense, but they can’t override our own biology.

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Is This Our World War I?

Jesse Kauffman / January 15, 2022 / History / 6 minute read

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While many historical analogies have been offered for our present moment, from the campaign to combat polio to the National Socialist dictatorship of Germany, it is perhaps this wholly unnecessary self-destruction of a civilization that our own era most readily resembles. The campaign by our government to prevent every possible infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus regardless of the cost has unleashed a hollowing of once trusted institutions and ideas.

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Fiat Money and the Covid Regime: Actually Existing Postmodernism

Michael Esfeld / September 14, 2022 / Economics, History, Philosophy / 11 minute read

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The mechanism that seduced many academics that have no sympathy with intellectual postmodernism is this one: it is suggested that by pursuing one’s normal, everyday course of life, one endangers the well-being of others.

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Authoritarian Pandemic Policies: A Reckoning

John H.S. Åberg / June 1, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 12 minute read

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Certainly, there must be something we can learn in preparation for the next virus ready to hold the world hostage. Or are we heading towards a sequel that bears almost plagiaristic resemblance to the current blockbuster? If there is one thing history has shown, it is that we often allow it to repeat itself irrespective of how devastating the outcomes were.

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CDC Wants Its Covid Regime Made Permanent

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 6, 2022 / Economics, Government, Public Health / 5 minute read

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What the CDC pushed on the country, even the world, was without precedent. The resulting disasters are everywhere present. At minimum we should expect the CDC to cease and desist, and certainly not entrench and codify. That the latter is taking place reveals what a long struggle lies ahead.

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