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The Reactionary Political Ethos of Lockdowns and Mandates

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 25, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 9 minute read

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We’ve lived through an enormous setback, pushed by reactionary elements among the ruling class, but it is likely a prequel to what comes next: a backlash against reaction and toward a new stage of progress. Cycles within cycles. Forces of centralization have had a field day, and a good run of it, but the forces of decentralization are fighting back again with good odds of regaining the narrative again.

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Is Natural Immunity a Case of Lost Knowledge?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 21, 2022 / History, Policy, Public Health, Society, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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If anything has demonstrated that Rothbard was correct about the fallacy of the Whig theory, and the capacity of humanity suddenly to act and total ignorance of what was once widely known, it is these last two years of folly.

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How Politicians Deal with Rebellion: Lessons from Australia

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / January 21, 2022 / History, Philosophy, Policy / 4 minute read

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Australian politicians are effectively showing us what good students of history they are. They have hanged a rebel leader, adopted his slogans, and quietly given in to some of the rebellion’s demands.

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A Litany of Absurdity

Brownstone Institute / January 20, 2022 / History, Policy / 10 minute read

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With the UK set to be one of the first countries to come out of the pandemic, I thought it was worth starting to compile a list of the most lunatic measures. Lest we forget.

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What Might Have Been: Calm, Protection, and Care

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 15, 2022 / History / 7 minute read

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Figuring out why sound public-health practice was rejected in favor of lockdowns is the job of writers and researchers for many years to come. But this much we know already. We had the information we needed to rationally address this threat. We had the experience and knowledge we needed to approach this responsibly and scientifically. A very small group of people on both sides of the Atlantic chose a different path.

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Is This Our World War I?

Jesse Kauffman / January 15, 2022 / History / 6 minute read

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While many historical analogies have been offered for our present moment, from the campaign to combat polio to the National Socialist dictatorship of Germany, it is perhaps this wholly unnecessary self-destruction of a civilization that our own era most readily resembles. The campaign by our government to prevent every possible infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus regardless of the cost has unleashed a hollowing of once trusted institutions and ideas.

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No One Could Have Known?

Thomas Harrington / January 14, 2022 / History, Law / 10 minute read

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Events in recent days seem to suggest that the managers of the Covid narrative are attempting to effect a back-door climbdown of numerous of its longstanding articles of faith.

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The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 13, 2022 / History / 11 minute read

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What strikes me most in retrospect concerning the idea of the lab leak is the following. During the most critical weeks leading up to the obvious spread of the virus all over the Northeast of the U.S., leading to incredible carnage in nursing homes due to egregious policies that failed to protect the vulnerable and even deliberately infected them, public health officials in the US and UK were consumed not with a proper health response but with fear of dealing with the probability that this virus was man-made in China.

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Is Anyone Going to Accept Responsibility for This?

Joakim Book / January 12, 2022 / Economics, History, Policy / 6 minute read

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This is the model that will consume all public discussion of the pandemic response in the future: seeking but never finding anyone to bear responsibility. This is typical for episodes in history that are characterized by mass frenzy and distorted fanaticism. Once the mania is gone, it is hard to find anyone who is willing to accept responsibility for feeding it and acting upon it.

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Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 9, 2022 / History, Law, Policy, Public Health / 10 minute read

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What Sotomayer said about machines and humans was not rooted in ignorance as such; it was the fulfillment of the delusions of countless intellectuals the world over for most of this century. She was summarizing countless papers and presentations in the form of a casual quip, thus revealing it for the fundamental insanity that it truly is.

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Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives

Thomas Harrington / January 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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We are, under the pressure of what is arguably the most ambitious and well-coordinated perception management campaign in history, having some of our more basic perceptual and behavioral instincts rapidly bred out of our lives. And worse yet, most people have yet to fathom or even contemplate the actual reasons why this is being done and, what it all portends for the future of human dignity and freedom.

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They Said They Would Slow the Spread

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 3, 2022 / History, Law, Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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What a stunning repudiation of state policy – the worst failing of public health and public policy perhaps in the history of the US if not the entire world. We are right now living in its last days. Remember these days, my friends. They are legion and mark what is likely the end of the great fiasco.

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