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Service and Restraint: Lost Principles of Governance

Robin Koerner / September 17, 2022 / History, Society / 12 minute read

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The Queen acted always with great restraint, and never upon others in a way unconsented to, whatever her own views were. Modern politics, driven by the Administrative State, is based on an opposite principle, felt even more deeply and widely than usual in recent times: it regards itself as able to do exactly as it chooses to anyone it chooses, based entirely on its own immediate view of a prevailing situation.

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Mitigation Is the Golden Calf

Rev. John F. Naugle / September 15, 2022 / History, Philosophy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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It was evident to me from the early days of the lockdown that something very cult-like was occurring. When quite literally nothing happened during those first 15 days to justify the lockdowns, the mantra of “just wait two weeks” was on the lips of the believers of the Branch Covidians, much like how a doomsday cult leader is allowed to pick new dates when the aliens don’t show when they are supposed to.

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Fiat Money and the Covid Regime: Actually Existing Postmodernism

Michael Esfeld / September 14, 2022 / Economics, History, Philosophy / 11 minute read

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The mechanism that seduced many academics that have no sympathy with intellectual postmodernism is this one: it is suggested that by pursuing one’s normal, everyday course of life, one endangers the well-being of others.

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The Deeper History of ‘Social Distancing’ — the Western Term for Lockdown (封锁)

Michael Senger / September 13, 2022 / History / 24 minute read

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One way or another, the ancient policy of “lockdown” in response to an outbreak thus came full circle. Having been thoroughly discredited as counterproductive by 20th-century epidemiological research, this medieval policy of lockdown (封锁) was kept alive in China

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Governor Andrew Cuomo: From Hero to Goofball in One Seasonal Virus

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 13, 2022 / History, Public Health / 12 minute read

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Cuomo can’t imagine – truly – that he might have done anything wrong except perhaps communicated more clearly. In truth, governments could have forced everyone to paint their faces bright blue and wear frying pans for shoes and it would not have changed the pandemic outcome from what it was going to be. The virus never cared. But don’t tell that to Cuomo: the upshot of his book is that he saved New York. Nothing will convince him otherwise.

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The Story of Jared Kushner and His Ventilators

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 12, 2022 / History, Policy / 7 minute read

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You know the phrase self-aware? It does not apply to Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law. He somehow weaseled his way into the center of Covid planning in the White House. He dragged along two college buds, Nat Turner and Adam Boehler, two mega-rich kids without a lick of experience in pandemics or public health.

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The Guilty Men Behind UK’s Lockdown

Paula Jardine / September 9, 2022 / History / 8 minute read

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While the lockdowns have been catastrophic for ordinary people, destroying livelihoods, damaging children’s education and fuelling the inflationary hurricane that is the cost of living crisis, for CEPI they were mission accomplished.

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No Way Was the Huanan Market the Epicenter of Covid

Michael Senger / September 7, 2022 / History, Public Health / 5 minute read

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There’s something rotten in the state of virology. The study performed by these leading virologists, who’ve been dead centre in the Covid saga from the earliest secret calls about the virus in early 2020, is entirely reliant on a critical assumption that an early cluster of cases around the Huanan Market in Wuhan in December 2019 represented “the earliest known 174 COVID-19 cases in the world”—an assumption which is belied by an overwhelming amount of replicable, peer-reviewed evidence to the contrary.

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Debi Does Lockdowns

Debbie Lerman / September 7, 2022 / History, Policy, Society / 12 minute read

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Each anti-scientific, non-public-health measure in itself – e.g., universal cloth masking, testing and quarantining after the virus was widespread, focusing on cases instead of hospitalizations or deaths – was not intended to achieve anything, except the singular goal of fomenting massive fear. And the purpose of the fear was to ensure maximum compliance with lockdowns.

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Religious Individuals Versus Collectivist Control

Bruce W. Davidson / September 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 5 minute read

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One significant gift of Judaism and Christianity is the concept that an individual is responsible and valuable apart from the group. As Larry Siedentop explains in his book Inventing the Individual, Western civilization’s moral and legal foundations owe a great deal to that legacy. Before that, the ancient Romans and Greeks considered loyalty to the family-clan to be an absolute religious duty.

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Frankenstein Was the Foreshadowing

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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We keep doing this, gathering the raw material, going back to the lab, hooking up the idea to the power source, throwing the switch, and experiencing shock and regret at the results. Our modern monsters aren’t isolated threats; they are killing freedom the world over.

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Fauci’s Red Guards: The Mass Censoring of Social Media

Michael Senger / September 3, 2022 / Censorship, History, Media / 7 minute read

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By simultaneously threatening both the federal bureaucracy and social media companies, a handful of high-level officials could effectively transform the federal government into a sprawling censorship army reminiscent of Mao’s Red Guards, silencing any opposition to tin-pot public health policies with increasing detachment and certitude as this systematic silencing falsely convinced them that the regime’s policies were just and good.

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