The Norfolk Group working independently with the support of Brownstone Institute developed a comprehensive review of critical issues to be addressed in view to assess pandemic management as it was conducted in 2020-21 and as it may be conducted next time.
A Blueprint for a Serious Investigation Continue Reading
The WikiLeaks document dumps caused embarrassment to some governments. However, for all the repetitions of the charge against Assange that he put the lives of US and allied soldiers at risk, no credible evidence has been produced that this happened.
Self-Inflicted Harm: The Persecution of Assange Continue Reading
Like any old school respiratory virus, this one made us feel lousy, albeit with a different constellation of symptoms. We handled it the same way as other viral illnesses: we drank extra water, took some home remedies, and tried to get some extra sleep. A few years ago, no one made a big deal about, or needed to categorize, being sick like this. People rode it out. No one cared what you had. Or didn’t have.
Fear of Covid Is the Opiate of the People Continue Reading
This is the year when we will learn if Covid illiberalism will begin to be rolled back or has become a permanent feature of the political landscape in the democratic West. Although the head says to fear the worst, the eternally optimistic heart will still hope for the best.
State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 5 Continue Reading
It feels almost dangerous putting those three words in the title of an article. If science is simply a matter of evidence and causal inference, it should be fearless and not doctrinaire. It should go where evidence leads.
Vaccines, Autism, and Brownstone Continue Reading
The lesson is simple. Trust people with their lives, their choices, their communities. Governments have formal responsibilities to their people, and micromanaging breathing or bread consumption are not among them. Let crises teach humility, not hubris.
Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era Continue Reading
At my polling place, I valued my privacy when completing a ballot behind a partition. I have been independent for a long time but couldn’t help but wonder this time why the Democratic Party seemed so surprised that it lost.
Privacy in Voting Is a Treasure Continue Reading
The theme is meaning. Not big meaning but meaning in small things. The meaning of everyday life. Finding friendship, mission, passion, and love in the course of working out one’s life in the framework of a commercial society, which should not be narrowly construed as only a way of paying bills but rather should be seen as the instantiation of a life well lived. We were not doing a good job of that, so my thinking was to inspire people to come to love what we take for granted.
The Market Still Loves You Continue Reading
There is a strange way in which US lockdowns and disease panic miraculously healed the US/China trade rift that had been developing for the two years prior. Most “personal protective equipment” and especially masks used during the lockdown period in the US was imported from China in a deal between Trump and Xi, brokered by Trump’s son-in-law. Trade recovered, beginning with pandemic-related goods.
Why Your Mask Came from China Continue Reading
Due to public opposition, there is no vaccine passport in the US and one is not likely anytime soon. Good. That represents a big failure on the part of the disease planners. They wanted it otherwise.
Americans Reclaim their Right to Travel Continue Reading
