The Covid crisis led to vast confusion and silence in the libertarian world, for reasons I explain here, but I have little doubt where Murray would have stood. He was consistently opposed to the deployment of state violence.
Murray Rothbard on Forced Fluoridation Read Journal Article
The objective of this work is to inform the general public of the PsyWar methods and technologies that are being deployed so that individual citizens are more able to resist the effects of these forms of psychological manipulation.
The Stasi: Masters of PsyWar Read Journal Article
With the world turning full circle, post-World War Two concepts of human rights, equality, and local agency are exiting the international stage. The veiled colonialism currently dressed up as vaccine equity looks like a bunch of colonial bureaucrats forcing their sponsors’ wares on those with less power, whilst building policies to ensure this imbalance remains. Malnutrition, infectious disease, child marriage, and generational poverty are side issues to the East India Pharma and Software Company’s bottom lines. This will stop when those being colonized once again unite and refuse to comply. In the meantime, the enablers could open their eyes and understand who they are working for.
The History of Public Health Colonialism Read Journal Article
Whether or not Covid was a true black swan event is not my focus here. I’m interested in Taleb’s more general epistemological point that what catches us off guard would not have done so if we had a different perspective.
Black Swan, White Swan Read Journal Article
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.
What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar Read Journal Article
Despite Tedros’s censored words, it’s no wonder that Xi Jinping continues to feel vindicated and affirmed, and sees no real political danger in choosing his own power over the health and well-being of his people. Governments around the world still cannot muster the courage to make a full-throated and solid attack on zero-covid, for fear of the implications of such a concession. Nudges and hints, even from the WHO, will not do it.
The New Rift Between WHO and China Read Journal Article
Censorship is the death of science and inevitably leads to the death of people. America should be a bulwark against it, but it was not during the pandemic. Though the tide is turning with the Missouri v. Biden case, we must reform our scientific institutions so what happened during the pandemic never happens again.
Pandemic Samizdat in the US Read Journal Article
Many others, including Brownstone writers, have met with far worse treatment than that, including threats, insults, punishments, and the loss of jobs for sharing helpful information. Understandably, it is hard to admit that one has been ignorant or duped. However, the acquisition and propagation of real knowledge is immensely preferable to a pandemic of ignorance, especially when the ignorance may have very dire consequences.
False Knowledge is Our Fool’s Gold Read Journal Article
The meddling kids now include vast swaths of the world’s population, burning to put power back into the hands of the people as the liberal age promised long ago, while seeking justice for the wrongdoing of these last five years.
The Most Dramatic Narrative Shift in Modern History Read Journal Article
I believe that politicians and the political process pose less of an institutionalised threat to people’s freedoms, liberties, and speech than unelected judges who often, in the guise of interpreting laws, don’t hesitate to make – and make up – laws.
Judicial Adventurism Can Imperil Democracy Read Journal Article
