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Now We Know What It’s like To Live Among Lunatics

Mark Oshinskie / July 29, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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Day after day, week after week, month after month for 28 months, I heard people invoke the shibboleth, and parrot the mantra: “Pandemic!” Uttering this magic word was intended to justify any disruption of normal life, to excuse the failure to fulfill a wide range of personal responsibilities and to foreclose any reasonable discussion/dissent that might support the conclusion that the orchestrated, opportunistic overreaction to a respiratory virus was a complete, avoidable, government and media-made meltdown.

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A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 14, 2022 / Economics, Government, Media, Public Health / 8 minute read

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How many people on the planet have now been acculturated to top-down control, socialized to live in fear, accept whatever comes down from above, never to question an edict, and expect to live in a world of rolling man-made disasters? And was that the point after all, to breed low expectations for life on earth and relinquish the soul’s desire for a full and free life?

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Can Milei Defeat the Bureaucratic Hordes?

Charles Krblich / November 25, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Milei may be the real deal. He is uniquely qualified to end the out of control inflation affecting Argentina. However, if he is able to enact real cuts to the bureaucracies, will he be able to withstand the political, media, and legal attacks sure to come?

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How Lockdowns Wrecked this Student’s Dreams

Brownstone Institute / December 13, 2021 / Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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Covid has made a mockery of our university system and I am not sure if it will ever recover. My dreams of college and life in California have died a slow, painful death since Covid shut the world down back in March 2020. I am no longer angry. Life is too short and I am going to go start living it.

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The US President Finally Gets Covid

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 21, 2022 / Philosophy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Despite every mandate, closure, and imposition – despite the destruction of rights, liberties, and law – the virus would have its way. No class would be protected. No profession was immune. No amount of power or pomp would make a difference. Covid would come for everyone.

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What Killed Informed Consent?

Julie Ponesse / February 5, 2024 / Pharma, Policy, Society / 16 minute read

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In more and less formal ways, COVID was the tool that transformed our supposedly inalienable right to make informed choices about our private lives into a public and readily dispensable good. It was almost as if we had built such a network of infinitesimal choices creating the powerful illusion of choice that we didn’t notice when we were asked to give it all up in an instant.

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Woody Harrelson Demonstrates the Pain of Truth

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 26, 2023 / Media / 4 minute read

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The veil of myth that surrounds the great trauma of our lives needs rending at some point. Perhaps it starts just this way: with truth-telling fables in the guise of comedy that fall flat on shocked audiences who prefer to keep up the illusion that all of this happened in the name of public health.

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Where Is the Silver Lining?

Michael J. Sutton / June 15, 2023 / Philosophy / 11 minute read

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How then, do we respond to darkness and wickedness? We need to respond to darkness with light, a renewed sense of community, which is where most of us live, not drowning in darkness, prejudice, and suspicion, but communities of light. There are a lot of things wrong with our world today and there are many usual suspects: fascism, digital currencies, war, the WHO, the WEF, the rise of the corporate state, Covid Hysteria, Climate Hysteria.

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Is Liberalism a Lost Cause?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 16, 2022 / Economics, History, Philosophy, Society / 10 minute read

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Is liberalism a lost cause? Many say so. Many today dream that it would stay gone, forever doomed to be regarded as a failed experiment in a world longing for authoritarian control whether by the right, the left, the technocratic elite, or something else. Demoralized and depressed by so much “shock and awe,” and living in times of ubiquitous surveillance and unrelenting diktat, many others are inclined to give up the dream of freedom completely.

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From Covid to CBDC: The Path to Full Control

Josh Stylman / November 21, 2022 / Economics / 6 minute read

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Every indication is that CBDC’s arrival is imminent. Yesterday, several global banks announced a partnership with the NY Federal Reserve to pilot digital dollars. Given the ubiquity of credit/debit cards, payment apps, and other online payment systems, digital money has been bound to happen for some time. The risk isn’t the electronic part, that’s inevitable – it’s the fact that a central bank will oversee the digital currency.

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