War is likely to persist. Medicine, however, must remain steadfast, anchored in principles that transcend conflict, ideology, and time. It should not become a weapon but must remain a profession dedicated to the care of each individual, regardless of circumstance.
All rhetoric and seeming extremism aside, all these movements have ever wanted – from the 1790s to today – is for this product to be subject to normal market discipline of supply and demand, without any interventions designed to back the industry.
The Story of the Victorian-Era Anti-Mandate Movement Continue Reading
Contemporary medicine is not failing for lack of knowledge. It is failing under the weight of complexity. Nearly every aspect of patient care can now be measured. Yet despite these advances, a fundamental element has been eroded. This erosion is philosophical.
The Lost Art of Medicine: What Maimonides Knew That We Forgot Continue Reading
We are going to get a globe-shaking economic conflagration erupting from the void that was the Persian Gulf commodity fountain. That includes between 20% and 50% of all the basic commodities that drive global GDP.
Once we cut the behemoth down to human size, we can see that nothing is new, and defeating it is not impossible. It will take perseverance, hope, and a reckoning with ourselves.
The Behemoth of Global Corruption Is an Extension of Ourselves Continue Reading
Some books explain events, and others explain the world in which events become possible. Jacob Siegel’s The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control firmly to the second category. Siegel watched it up close.
They did not tell me about favorable time trends in the natural course of other infectious diseases for which there was no vaccine, nor about the correlation of those trends with improved living conditions, sanitation, personal hygiene, and nutrition.
Covid of the Past: Smallpox in Yugoslavia, 1972 Continue Reading
Murray Rothbard was not only a sweet and wonderful human being. He was a model intellectual with an irrepressible desire to understand and tell what is true. No scholar with such an outlook can fit comfortably in any establishment in any age.
We need CovidJustice.org now to make it clear that this era is in disrepute. It’s necessary because the World Health Organization is even now pledging to do it all over again.
Unfortunately, people who are immersed in the ‘echo chamber’ of current ‘liberal’ ideology, seem to be unable to perceive the shift that has occurred from its ‘original’ meaning – as clarified earlier – and its present incarnation in linguistic and political practices.
Are the ‘Liberals’ of Today Really Liberals? Continue Reading
You cannot heal social ills rooted in the practice of organizing people into supposedly immutable categories that allegedly correspond to varying degrees of essential human value by doubling down on the practice of organizing people on the basis of supposedly immutable categories.
Trump’s cancellation of the so-called “endangerment finding” with respect to CO2 made by the Obama White House in 2009 is so profoundly important as to make up for a legion of Trump’s spending, borrowing, easy money, and tariffing sins.
Goodbye and Good Riddance to the Endangerment Finding Continue Reading
