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The Illusion of Republicanism

Michael Esfeld / May 22, 2023 / History, Philosophy, Policy / 17 minute read

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The open society is also dependent on a positive narrative of freedom and self-determination. As an open society, however, it must be open in terms of how – and thus by which values – this narrative is justified. That is to say, it has to accommodate a pluralism of narratives which agree in the conclusion of implementing in society the moral obligation for every person to respect the right to self-determination of every other person.

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Mises on Intellectual Obligation in Times of Crisis

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 19, 2021 / Philosophy / 11 minute read

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We are not atomistic. We do not live in isolation. We live as a decentralized network of free people, cooperating together out of choice and to our mutual betterment. We owe it to ourselves and to each other to fight for the right to continue to do so, and to beat back any and every attempt to take that right away.

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How the Shanghai Lockdown Serves the CCP

Michael Senger / April 20, 2022 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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China’s leaders visit as much hardship on their people as they want, whenever they want. The global COVID containment system, like the global communist system, is itself propaganda; though the brutality is real, individual human beings are mere set pieces in service to a narrative with a goal that was never obtainable.

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Who Is Better at Raising Your Child, You or the State?

Mattias Desmet / May 13, 2023 / Education / 5 minute read

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Just as the state cannot trust the weighty job of parenting to parents, it cannot trust the job of childcare to childcare providers. They will therefore have to be subjected to strict protocols, as befits a good bureaucracy. And those protocols will be designed by experts who have scientifically determined which conditioning techniques lead to the best adapted little New Citizen.

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Anatomy of the Administrative State: The HHS

Robert Malone / July 7, 2022 / History, Law / 23 minute read

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Across two administrations led by presidents who have championed very different worldviews, HHS COVID policies have continued with little or no change; one administration seemingly flowing directly into the next with hardly a hiccough. If anything, under Biden the HHS arm of the US administrative state became more authoritarian, more unaccountable, and more decoupled from any need to consider the general social and economic consequences of their actions. As this has progressed, the HHS bureaucracy has become increasingly obsequious and deferential to the economic interests of the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex.

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Dr. Birx’s Fake Science Revealed in Her Own Words

Debbie Lerman / August 12, 2022 / History, Policy / 13 minute read

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In her “excruciating story” of the pandemic, The Silent Spread, Deborah Birx does not even try to make coherent scientific or public health policy arguments in favor of the Chinese-style totalitarian measures she advocated. Instead, she provides nonsensical, self-contradictory assertions – some downright false and others long disproven in the scientific literature.

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Our Government’s “Whole-of-Society” Rule

Aaron Kheriaty / August 14, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Society / 9 minute read

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For those who don’t want to be ruled by a whole of society party-state, the political question is how to dismantle this machinery. Whatever the remedy, it must involve a reestablishment of the distinction between government and civil society.

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Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying A Country From Within

Michael Senger / July 14, 2022 / History, Policy, Public Health / 16 minute read

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I’m not saying Deborah Birx is a CCP agent. I’m just saying that if she was an agent for Xi Jinping’s stated goal of gradually stripping the world of “independent judiciaries,” “human rights,” “western freedom,” “civil society,” and “freedom of the press,” then every word of her book would read like that of Silent Invasion. If she did do it, this is how it would have happened.

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Dissent: Gaps in the Regime

Bert Olivier / October 28, 2024 / History, Media, Philosophy / 8 minute read

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It is true that dissent need not appear in publicly conspicuous ways; it manifests itself in households, virtually on a daily basis, for instance where subordinated women engage in dissent regarding the oppression or abuse they experience.

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Are the Olympics a Trial Run for a 1984 Digital State?

Aaron Hertzberg / July 30, 2024 / Society, Technology / 18 minute read

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I hope the uproar caused by the Summer Games’ disruptions to people’s ability to live, work in, and enjoy their city will shine a light on these dangerous technologies of control and surveillance that are incompatible with a free society.

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