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Technology and a Tyranny Worse than Prison

Bert Olivier / March 27, 2023 / Economics, Philosophy, Technology / 12 minute read

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There is a lesson in this as far as the ineluctable need for action is concerned when rational argument with would-be oppressors gets one nowhere. This is especially the case when it becomes obvious that these oppressors are not remotely interested in a reasonable exchange of ideas, but summarily resort to the current unreasonable incarnation of technical rationality, namely AI-controlled mass surveillance, with the purpose of subjugating entire populations.

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The German Faith in Authority

Sven Grünewald / March 29, 2022 / Policy, Society, Vaccines / 12 minute read

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Not only do media commentaries and politicians casually discuss discriminatory measures against unvaccinated people without being attacked for it by their peers, but ‘normal’ citizens, including highly accomplished academics, are doing so as well. The sudden switch of the political agenda from Covid-19 to the Ukraine illustrates that this is not Covid-exclusive behaviour.

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How Lockdowns Bolstered an Industrial Cartel

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 27, 2023 / Economics / 7 minute read

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The introduction of digital commerce in the late 20th century threatened a new age of commercial freedom that came to a screeching halt with the lockdowns of 2020. In this sense, lockdowns were not “progressive” at all but profoundly conservative in the old-fashioned sense of the term. It was an establishment fighting to preserve and entrench its power. Perhaps that was the whole point all along.

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Deny, Deflect, Defend: The Censors’ Strategy on Display

Brownstone Institute / July 20, 2023 / Law, Media, Technology / 6 minute read

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While the government’s denials and deflections are insulting to the citizens they purport to represent, we must remain focused on their aim: they appealed Doughty’s order because they oppose constitutional restraints on their control of information. We would hope that requiring the government to obey the Constitution would be uncontroversial; now, it may signify whether the rule of law still stands in the United States.

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Science, Society, and Stability

Bert Olivier / August 8, 2024 / Education, History, Psychology / 12 minute read

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The natural sciences have a significant destabilising effect on culture and society. This was noted by social thinker and futurologist Alvin Toffler decades ago regarding the disruptive consequences of the constant and rapid stream of novel discoveries and inventions.

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The War against the Lab Leak Hypothesis

Pat Fidopiastis / September 3, 2024 / Censorship, Media, Public Health / 6 minute read

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In order to “Follow the science,” the anti-lab leak crowd requires everyone to believe that scientists routinely fall off roofs and that totalitarian regimes never lie or withhold information…Which side was censored at the behest of the Federal Government?

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Evil in a Box

Thomas Harrington / October 10, 2024 / History, Philosophy, Society / 9 minute read

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That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and necessarily time-bound case of evil “in a box.” Why?

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The Catastrophic Covid Convergence

Debbie Lerman / July 11, 2022 / History, Society / 15 minute read

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How did my family, friends and neighbors – who I thought shared my liberal, humanist values – turn into a group-thinking, bullying herd? What forces were exerted to erase scientific and intellectual integrity from the minds of literally millions of doctors, scientists, economists, journalists, educators and other normally curious and compassionate people worldwide?

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The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 18, 2022 / Media / 12 minute read

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The whole sorry episode speaks to a much larger and more entrenched problem: the symbiotic relationship between Big Media and the administrative state. It’s the permanent bureaucracy that serves the journalists’ primary and most credible source material. The higher the journalist or the bureaucrat rises in the profession, the fatter the rolodex grows on both ends. They maintain constant communication, as the FOIA’d emails about the pandemic have repeatedly shown.

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Silence of the Damned

Richard Kelly / December 29, 2023 / History, Media, Society / 7 minute read

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None of our civil institutions shows the slightest inclination to talk about the injustices of the last few years, let alone the possibility that those injustices continue their impact today, and could emerge again at any time. All it needs is another ‘crisis’ and the whole sorry saga could start all over again.

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