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The Political Became Very Personal

Michael Senger / February 6, 2023 / Psychology / 12 minute read

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The scars that have been left on all of us by the response to COVID are incomprehensibly varied and deep. For most, there hasn’t been enough time to mentally process the significance of the initial lockdowns, let alone the years-long slog of mandates, terror, propaganda, social stigmatization and censorship that followed. And this psychological trauma affects us in myriad ways that leave us wondering what it is about life that just feels so off versus how it felt in 2019.

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The Twisted Tree of Mitigation

Mark Oshinskie / June 10, 2023 / Society / 4 minute read

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The “mitigation” supporters actively, openly hated people, like me, who predicted, in March, 2020, all of the destruction that lockdowns, school closures, masks, tests and shots would cause. This gullible mob of tens of millions dismissed “mitigation” critics as “selfish non-experts” and “Grandma killers.”

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The Fight for Civilization: Two Interviews with Jeffrey Tucker

Brownstone Institute / October 14, 2021 / Economics, History / 2 minute read

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Two lengthy interviews with Brownstone founder and president are now online. The first is with the Bill Walton show, and the second is with journalist and author Robin Koerner. Excerpts from the above: “We’ve dealt with pandemics in the past. In the modern age and the 20th century, we did very

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Where Have All the Lanternflies Gone?

Michael Lesher / September 25, 2023 / Policy / 10 minute read

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So remember the lanternfly. Remember how silly and how ephemeral was the story of its threat to us all. And yet, how seriously we were lectured that the lanternfly meant the End of the World. Remember it the next time you’re told that the entire globe is about to burn because people are driving cars or cooking with gas stoves. Or that somebody’s sniffles are going to kill you. Or that censorship is meant for your protection. Or that democracy and freedom aren’t really in your best interest.

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Ignorance, Stupidity, or Malice?

Rob Jenkins / March 29, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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So yes, the four-year debacle that is our collective Covid response is attributable in part to ignorance and in part to malice. But worse than either of those, and far more damaging to society in the long term, has been the sheer stupidity—humanity’s capacity for which I will never again underestimate.

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Vaccine Passports: Institutionalized Segregation

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Aditi Bhargava / November 8, 2021 / Public Health, Society / 4 minute read

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We already know this country has deep divisions. We simply cannot allow coercive policies that will result in the creation of a society that is less just and more fractured than it already is.

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Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 3, 2022 / Philosophy, Public Health / 12 minute read

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I’m sorry to report that the entire book is a study in mysophobia, more worthy of study by a student of abnormal psychology than a public health official, much less a scientist. That no one has ever pointed this out to him is a disgrace. It’s the trouble with being so rich that you become uncriticizable.

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Defining Dictator Down Won’t Make Us Free

James Bovard / June 20, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 4 minute read

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Perhaps Biden could satisfy his gender-fluid supporters by coming out publicly and personally identifying as “non-dictator.” But other Americans will continue wryly watching the political rascality, laughing at the media’s snit-fits, and awaiting the next judicial demolition of Biden’s decrees.

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Send Them

Christine Black / June 12, 2023 / Philosophy / 10 minute read

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The sad impulse to sacrifice others to save ourselves appeared when people stepped up and spoke out during the Covid period. If someone said something that made me look bad or that interfered with my profits or my institution or my company’s profits, then we sacrificed that person. But what if she was right and speaking the truth — or hadn’t done anything wrong? Nope. Didn’t matter. Let her hang. Leave her there.

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The Wrecking of New York City: Accident or Design?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 21, 2021 / Media, Policy, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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We find ourselves in an emergency situation. The world is tottering between two visions of human life. One centers on freedom and all its creativity, including cities, arts, friendships, technology, and great lives. The other centers on despotism and the relentless drive back to a state of nature: foraging for food, living in rural settings, stuck in one place, and dying young.

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