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What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 1, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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Every age has generated some fashionable and overriding reason why people cannot be free. Public health is the reason of the moment. In this author’s telling, everything we think we know about the social and political order must conform to his number one priority of pathogen avoidance and suppression, while every other concern (such as freedom itself) should take a back seat.

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Best-Selling Author Michael Lewis Pens CIA Covid Propaganda

Debbie Lerman / July 10, 2023 / Government, Media, Society / 22 minute read

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The terrifying takeaways from this analysis are: First, that what Lewis is hiding – or trying to divert attention away from – is the massive CIA involvement in the Covid response. Second, that the intelligence and national security leaders who were in charge of the Covid response did not just censor information that contradicted their narrative; they also recruited widely trusted voices – including internationally renowned authors – to disseminate their propaganda.

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Wait! There’s a Pandemic?

Lori Weintz / April 2, 2024 / History, Society / 10 minute read

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Before Covid-19 there had been other pandemics. But in the past 100 years, with the exception of the Spanish flu in 1918, the other pandemics came and went without much notice for the majority of the world’s population. For example, much press coverage of the first SARS in 2003 neglected to report there were only 774 total deaths worldwide. Likewise, the heightened reporting of the 2012 MERS pandemic failed to summarize that there were only 858 total deaths. In contrast, recurring influenza strains kill an average of 400,000 people worldwide each year.

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Churches During Lockdowns: Near Disaster

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson / October 5, 2022 / History, Law, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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The compassion-hacking of American churches did not in itself save anyone’s life, but it did help to break down another civil-society barrier standing in the way of governmental totalization. As Hannah Arendt warned us, authoritarian and totalitarian schemes do not work without mass buy-in from the constituency. Buy-in requires people to be isolated, lonely, atomized, and stripped of all meaning.

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The Propaganda Model Has Limits

Mattias Desmet / August 1, 2024 / Media, Society / 9 minute read

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The indoctrination and propaganda model is creaking and groaning. From the fact that the Democrats ran with Biden and then had to force him out in this amateurish manner, we can only conclude that the desperation must be enormous.

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This Is No Path to Happiness

David Smith / March 31, 2022 / Society / 9 minute read

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We’ve provided you deplorables with bread and circuses and still you’re ungrateful, unmanageable and generally a major pain in the ass. But we’ve found out how to use new technologies–such as subscription vaccines–combined with never-ending manufactured crises for the purpose of controlling you.

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Divided We Fall

Lani Kass / March 10, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 14 minute read

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We recoil because we know that the appeal to self is corrosive to unit cohesion. We also know that promoting individual identity and self-actualization—focusing on what is different among us—fosters division. And yet we are repeatedly told that it’s precisely such “diversity”—not of thought, but of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation—that makes our nation prosperous and our military strong.

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Covid Exposed the Fall of Education Like Nothing Else

David Barnhizer / October 16, 2024 / Education, Psychology / 17 minute read

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The Covid-19 virus attack had a single good side. It is that if the K-12 schools had not abandoned in-person teaching and shifted to online computer and Zoom classes, parents would never have discovered that their children were being brainwashed.

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The Not-Very-Hidden Agenda of the Fact Checkers

Christopher Messina / March 3, 2022 / Media / 14 minute read

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Some anonymous drone at LinkedIn took it upon his or herself (there are no other options) to waste the time and hurt the reputation of a customer. When that customer got fed up by such horrendous abuse from a company that was supposed to provide a service, that same anonymous, unaccountable petty person or collection of people told that customer to go spend money on lawyers to sue LinkedIn for access to the data that customer (erroneously) believes he owns.

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The Politics of Natural Infection

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 2, 2022 / Public Health / 6 minute read

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Reflecting on this topic of exposure and immunity eventually leads a person to realize that we don’t need centralized control, coercion, and dictatorial power to manage a pandemic. Pandemics are unavoidable but they largely manage themselves while the best-possible outcomes rest with the intelligence of individuals informing choices based on their own risk assessment.

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