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Ancient Political Advice for Today’s Rulers

Bert Olivier / May 2, 2024 / Government, Philosophy, Psychology / 11 minute read

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Psy-ops employ a diversity of psychological strategies and techniques to exercise influence over the feelings, thoughts, and behaviour of a selected group, with the obvious goal of persuading the people comprising the latter, usually via various modes of deception, to act in a desired manner. If this sounds familiar, don’t be surprised. It has been carried out on the populations of the world’s countries since at least 2020, and arguably for much longer.

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America Will Never Give Up Its Ideals

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 6, 2023 / History, Philosophy, Society / 6 minute read

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The cultural crisis and the pandemic of loneliness, not to mention the mass wave of substance abuse and depression, reflects the country-wide shock that all our fundamental ideals could so easily have been swept aside for a cockamamie central plan that trampled on everything we believe in and have always practiced however imperfectly. It felt like an invasion of the body snatchers, nowhere better symbolized than with vaccine mandates that most intelligent people knew we didn’t need even if they were safe and effective, which they were not.

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Vaccine Mandates are the New Prohibition

Emily Burns / October 27, 2021 / History, Policy / 11 minute read

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To garner support for these radical infringements of our most fundamental rights, politicians and bureaucrats have engaged in shameless “othering,” telling us that certain groups of “bad” people put other groups of “good” people in mortal danger. These tactics have been used many times before in our country and others. “Ugly” doesn’t even begin to describe the results.

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The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance

Randall Bock / December 4, 2022 / History, Public Health / 20 minute read

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In 2015, a viral pandemic from Northeast Brazil exploded into the news, supported by breathless public health alarms that Zika — a flavivirus acknowledged for decades as harmless — was now suddenly responsible for congenital microcephaly (babies with small heads; diminished intellect). Massive panic predictably ensued.

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A Critique of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission

David Bell / September 27, 2022 / Philosophy, Public Health / 15 minute read

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The commission members appear convinced that lockdowns and mass vaccination were a net benefit, but It also appears that in two years of consultation they have not considered the alternative. The loss of decades of progress on infectious disease, human rights, and poverty reduction caused by lockdowns has not given sufficient pause for thought.

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Snipe Hunts All the Way Down

Toby Rogers / August 8, 2023 / Philosophy / 7 minute read

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The revolution we seek then is about a turn away from the artificial and ridiculous toward the real. That would seem to be the most natural and rewarding turn of all. But the human condition and the flaws in human nature are such that we are always fighting a battle against the temptations of the artificial and idolatrous. Together we must build an entire culture and economy based on cherishing the good, the true, and the beautiful in everyday life.

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A Manual for Post-Pandemic Germophobia Therapy

Steve Templeton / December 17, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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The more I thought about it, the more I realized that living in the modern world has left most people, including journalists, politicians, physicians, and even many scientists, with little or no appreciation of how important their relationship with microbes is to their overall health. Not just bacteria and fungi, but also viruses, too.

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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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Modern Orthodox Judaism Failed to be Either Modern or Orthodox During Covid

Etan Golubtchik / July 7, 2023 / Philosophy / 17 minute read

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Modern Orthodox Rabbinic leadership, both in the US and in Israel, were some of the earliest and most dedicated to the warped scientific framework and extralegal approach underlying obedience to the new rules of covid enforcement. Indeed, early on, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County was one of the first religious institutions in the country to voluntarily cancel all religious services, claiming that Jews were religiously required to stay home, well before any government edicts were issued.

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What We Can Learn from Ancient Spartans about Courage

Bert Olivier / April 22, 2023 / Government, Policy / 10 minute read

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The neo-fascists may (and probably do) think of themselves as putatively superhuman beings, but they are just as prone as any other group of people to squabbling among themselves, in this way undermining or derailing their plans. The ‘resistance’ to their unscrupulous programme of domination – that means, everyone who has taken up the fight against them – therefore has to remind themselves that, even when things look bleak, one has to remain steadfast, and courageous.

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