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Brainwashing Versus Critical Thinking in Japan

Bruce W. Davidson / March 13, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 6 minute read

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The overwhelming majority in all age groups in Japan got caught up in the panic generated by government officials, mainstream news media, and the medical community. For three years now masks have been worn continuously everywhere, including mountain trails and public parks. The widespread use of brainwashing here has been especially disheartening to me, since I have spent much of my time and effort over the last thirty years teaching, researching, and writing about critical thinking education in Japan.

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Just How Alienated Are Our Masters and Commanders?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 15, 2024 / 10 minute read

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How this ends no one knows. Nothing like this has shaped itself with this intensity in an industrialized democracy before. Someone needs to figure out the peaceful exit ramp in a hurry – ideally through some ruling-class contrition and some institutional reform – because the present gulf that separates the people from the increasingly rarified elite cannot endure for much longer.

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The Wuhan Cover-Up by RFK, Jr.: Review and Analysis

Debbie Lerman / February 16, 2024 / Government, History, Vaccines / 13 minute read

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The Wuhan Cover-Up does a better job than any other book or article I have read at exposing the trends, forces, and institutions that brought us the Covid catastrophe – with hundreds of pages of notes and references. What’s frightening is that the enormity of the problem is beyond the scope of the book, not just to solve, but even to fully acknowledge.

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A Caste System Threatens the West

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 4, 2021 / History, Philosophy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The great turn from ancient political and economic structures into more modern ones was not only about property rights, commercial freedoms, and the participation of ever greater waves of people in public life. There was also an implicit epidemiological deal to which we agreed, what Sunetra Gupta describes as an endogenous social contract.

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We Sacrificed Their Childhood at the Altar of Our Choices

David McGrogan / December 27, 2023 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 19 minute read

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The contributors to the special issue of The International Human Rights Journal would have us believe that the circle could in some way have been squared and that we could have ‘saved lives’ by closing schools while at the same time making sure children did not suffer. This forces them to make out that the issue is awfully complicated. But I’m afraid to say it really is in the end very simple: children should never have had to go through the experience of lockdown.

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It Was a Short Time Ago and Never Happened Anyway

Richard Kelly / November 1, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 8 minute read

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There are other good reasons to think the onslaught is not over, that we are at the moment in a ‘phony war’ while enemy forces regroup. Inflation, energy, food, surveillance are all active fronts in the broader battle. It hardly matters which one will flare up next.

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Virus Control Is the New Feudalism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 15, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The social contract we practice with regard to the threat of infectious diseases is that we manage them intelligently while never trampling on the dignity of the human person. The payoff is that our immune systems get stronger, enabling all of us to enjoy longer and healthier lives – not just some of us, not just the legally privileged, not just those with access to platforms to speak but rather every single member of the human community.

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Australians for Science and Freedom

Ramesh Thakur / September 30, 2022 / Policy / 9 minute read

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Australia was not immune to the galloping authoritarianism of Western democracies. Melbourne was Ground Zero for some of the most draconian restrictions on individual freedoms and civil liberties, as most routine daily activities were criminalized for people and small businesses.

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The Great Overreaction

Lori Weintz / December 18, 2022 / History, Law, Public Health / 14 minute read

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Illogical fear, driven by a hyperactive media, and by cowardly and controlling government leaders and public health authorities ruled the day. One of the most insidious results of our descent into ignorance about medicine, and our discarding of social contracts and human rights, was the rise of self-righteous intolerance for, and censorship of, anyone who questioned what was happening.

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My Official Apology to the New York Post

Yasmina Palumbo / May 31, 2023 / Media / 5 minute read

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So, I’m sorry, NY Post. I judged you by your cover. By your red and black barking headlines. But I was wrong. And for anyone else out there who feels they might owe someone an apology, let me tell you it feels good to settle a debt. I highly recommend it.

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