As it turns out, machines do a better job than anonymous oligarchs at getting us close to the truth. Welcome to the post-Wikipedia age. It was fun while it lasted. All hail its deprecation and replacement with something much better.
The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia Continue Reading
For nearly 50 years, the quintessential New York Times reporter, Donald G McNeil, Jr. “did it all:” from copy boy to foreign correspondent to science reporter; ultimately to global health linchpin: his career successes symbiotically intertwined with his most frequently quoted domain experts, former NIAID- and CDC- chiefs, Drs. Anthony Fauci and Tom Frieden; trading access for placement. Then came Covid.
The Marvelous Mr. McNeil Continue Reading
Whatever the reason, the cultural infrastructure that had made life in Australia free, prosperous, and generally good did not protect the country against a mad rush into totalitarianism.
Only Freedom Can Fix a Broken Australia Continue Reading
Brownstone Supper Club Philadelphia! Thursday, November 7, 2024 – Tom Harrington November 7 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm $50.00 Brownstone is thrilled to announce its November Supper Club in Philadelphia, featuring guest speaker Tom Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and Brownstone Fellow, Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in
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Fighting mandates on college campuses is isolating and ostracizing. When faced with giving up your dreams, the coercion is unbearable. Many students have caved under the pressure.
Medical Freedom: Why It Matters Continue Reading
In America, due to government edicts, our overall health declined, we got sicker, we saw an unprecedented obesity increase, among other issues caused by “public health” interventions. Far from solving the virus issue at hand, it’s become clear that all of these mandates and restrictions just added additional problems on top of the issue of an endemic seasonal virus.
Freedom Won the Lockdown Battle Continue Reading
The FDA cannot know that the benefits to such a man outweigh the risk. The FDA does not even know the benefits to this man and broader society outweigh the risks. The FDA is playing a dangerous game with vaccine perception.
Should Every American Older than 18 Get a Booster? Continue Reading
The commentary below concentrates on selected draft provisions of the latest publicly available version of the draft agreement that seem to be unclear or potentially problematic. Much of the remaining text is essentially pointless as it reiterates vague intentions to be found in other documents or activities which countries normally undertake in the course of running health services, and have no place in a focused legally-binding international agreement.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement: A Guide Continue Reading
Truth and false is not a matter of science but cultural power— the ability to proclaim and define the truth. If this continues, dark times lie ahead. Someday soon, we may not like who defines the truth.
For Whom Do the Covid “Fact Checkers” Really Work? Continue Reading
Stakeholder capitalism inevitably creates a tyranny of minorities, and especially highly ideological minorities (because a shared ideology reduces the cost of organizing). Minority stakeholders will succeed in expropriating majority ones. Minority tyranny is the big problem with democratic politics. Extending it to vast swathes of economic life is a nightmare.
Stakeholder Capitalism is an Oxymoron Continue Reading
