For all the messiness, our times present opportunity to reassert a foundational principle of the Enlightenment; namely that the people themselves should have some fluid and influential role in shaping the workings of the regime under which they live.
The Party Is Over Read Journal Article
It’s the broad thrust of Vance’s two-pronged argument that I found attractive. ‘Free speech, I fear, is in retreat,’ said Vance. He called EU commissioners ‘Commissars’ and warned that ‘in Britain and across Europe, free speech is in retreat.’
Speak Truth to Power…or Irrelevance Read Journal Article
Like Napoleon’s troops, the legions of cognitive warriors from the myriad government-financed, non-governmental organizations are sure they have arrived at the end of history when it comes to understanding what it means to live a free and dignified life.
Napoleon: Then and Now Read Journal Article
The state can only expand into the vacuum left by weakened men and disconnected women. Those who recognize this pattern face a simple choice: remain comfortable spectators in our own decline, or reclaim the authentic virtues that make us human.
How to Forge the Spectator Class Read Journal Article
The Dossier contains information regarding the military/intelligence coordination of the Covid biodefense response in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. For some countries, we have documentation of military/intelligence involvement, but not all the details.
The Covid Dossier Read Journal Article
Despite our trappings of technology, we have proven incapable of addressing even the most basic of society’s essential functions – protecting children. We are all part of the failure, and we have allowed it to become very deep.
Child Sacrifice and Our Desire to Ignore It Read Journal Article
Caught in the “measure-grab-and-control” tyranny of the algorithmic mind, they cannot imagine how those they see as lesser than them, might, if left to their own devices, be capable of generating greater efficiencies than their vaunted oh-so-rational systems.
The Demoralizing Downward Spiral of Algorithmic Culture Read Journal Article
This is the Brownstone community: informed, intelligent, eloquent, passionate, far-seeing, and deeply engaged. We are all learning together what it means to make a difference in our own lives and others. This is the way to rebuild the world.
In Praise of Brownstonians Read Journal Article
Collateral Global is a group of scientists who have been assessing the costs of Covid. Yet Collateral Global can’t calculate the emotional cost of broken families and bankruptcies from all sorts of addictions run riot by enforced inactivity.
The Rise of Gambling Addiction: Another Cost of Covid Read Journal Article
If the deep blue voters of California recognize the folly of their choices and the destruction-driven bent of their elected leaders, if they demand answers and repudiate their woke ways, perhaps there is hope.
I hope you will join me in celebrating the nobility of physical labor. To pass through this time of testing and their abusive psychological manipulation methods, my humble recommendation is to recommit to faith in something greater than yourself.
To Celebrate Simple Gifts Read Journal Article
Everyone knows that the multi-generational family table has, for centuries, been the prime site of socialization for society’s young. It is where they have learned to listen, pay attention, interpret body language, and acquire the art of storytelling.
To Survive Family Dinners Read Journal Article
