Parties that once dedicated themselves to free expression are now the leading proponents of “content moderation.” The Washington Post reported that “authorities detained Durov as part of a preliminary investigation that focused on the lack of content moderation on Telegram.”
The First Amendment Cannot Stop Pavel Durov’s Arrest in America Read Journal Article
I cannot remember the last discussion I had about the Good Life. When we consider that this question has been one of the mainstays of Western intellectual life for more than 2,500 years, its absence from our public is alarming.
We No Longer Ponder the Good Life Read Journal Article
If we’re to save our democracy, we have to save our voters – by replacing government schools with schools that actually teach instead of indoctrinate. That could mean school choice, vouchers, or homeschooling co-ops.
Save the Voters, Replace the Schools Read Journal Article
We need a revolution to replace the Covidians with people who understand liberty. But even once we take power and restore the basic freedoms of the past 250 years, we need checks and balances for science and medicine.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Our World Read Journal Article
Since he became the presumptive VP candidate, stories have come out that I never knew—because media has been running cover for Tim Walz for years. He’s really just a lefty Trump, only with Hollywood and media on his side.
Who Is Tim Walz? Read Journal Article
We seemed doomed to watch the same old errors unfold before our eyes, in a natural trajectory of folly from money printing to inflation to price controls, just as from universal quarantines to growing ill-health, education losses, and population demoralization.
The Trajectory of Emergency Lands on Price Controls Read Journal Article
Our elites remind how one false step, like the use of a politically incorrect term or an unusually piercing critique of something they have ensconced as sacred, might land us in the realm of the destitute.
Lessons from Poland: Elites and the Bonds We Forge 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
Pundits are looking at the election between Harris and Trump in terms of its historical, societal, or political ramifications. The most useful way of looking at this election cycle is to view Trump vs. Harris as Nixon vs. McGovern 2.0.
Nixon vs. McGovern 2.0 Read Journal Article
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.
Science, Society, and Stability Read Journal Article
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive—a competitive market can support local sourcing for those where food is grown, feed cities, and disseminate wealth. Destruction of big agriculture is starvation for many.
Farms of all Sizes Feed the World Read Journal Article
Like people, paradigms get tired, mostly because humans lose touch with the problems that originally elicited in them the drive to create new things. But humans aren’t always good at recognizing when they have begun going through the motions.
Linear Time and the Art of Staying Human Read Journal Article
