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A Nation of Non-Compliers

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 6, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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We long ago gave up the hope that all of this is random and coincidental, any more than it so happened that nearly every government in the world decided to plaster social distancing signs everywhere at the same time. Something is going on, something malevolent. The battle of the future really is between them and us but who or what “them” is remains opaque and too many of “us” are still confused about what the alternative is to what is happening all around us.

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When Did the Virus Really Arrive in Italy?

Will Jones / January 5, 2024 / History, Society / 7 minute read

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One thing we can do is attempt to glean new insights from the data we already have, and perhaps one day, when the current crop of suspiciously uninterested leaders has moved on, the trail will be picked up again by sincere people who want to get to the truth and have the resources to do it.

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The Dark Side of the Force Isn’t Actually Paved in Black

Bill Rice / January 4, 2024 / History, Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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The analogy that Star Wars fans do not get is that the Evil Empire could be equated to the real rulers of the earth today. “The Resistance” might equate to the 10 percent of world citizens who are fighting back in the face of overwhelming odds. Why don’t more people understand who the Evil Empire really is…and who are really the Good Guys fighting back?

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The Real Purge in Academia

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 4, 2024 / Education, History, Society / 5 minute read

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We have certainly lived through the decline and fall of the older idea of the university. Now we may yet live to see the end of the university itself and its replacement by something else entirely. Reforms can work but the reform will not likely come from within the institutions. They must be imposed by alumni and perhaps legislatures. Or perhaps the rule of “Go woke, go broke” will eventually force a change. Regardless, the idea of learning itself will surely return. We are in the transition, and David Barnhizer is our Virgil to give us an outstanding tour of the wreckage left behind and perhaps even a path out of the darkness.

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The Toilet Paper Canard

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 3, 2024 / Economics, History, Society / 6 minute read

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Lately I’ve been hearing that we had to lock down because the nation was in a panic as evidenced by the famous toilet paper shortage of the Spring of 2020. It’s not clear how this is supposed to work. How does a toilet paper shortage indicate the presence of a killer disease that can be mitigated by shutting everything down?

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We Often Imitate What We Say We Oppose

Thomas Harrington / January 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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“How to struggle for justice without becoming what we claim to despise in our opponents?” That is the question. How well or poorly we as activists and idea-makers respond to this challenge in the short term will, I believe, go a long way toward predicting our long-term chances of building the more cohesive and human-centered culture we all desire for ourselves and our children.

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Kristina Borjesson: Rest in Peace to a Brave Investigator

Meryl Nass / January 2, 2024 / Media, Society / 2 minute read

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In 2002 I did not know the extent of media malfeasance. Kristina, however, documented it in the most careful, credible and unbelievable way—collecting many chapters by top journalists of the stories they tried to report and how they lost their careers when they attempted to tell the truth. She lost her career at CBS, trying to tell the truth about the mid-air explosion of a 747 (TWA 800) over Long island sound, which was probably the result of a US Navy exercise gone awry.

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The Hero’s Voice is Within Your Reach

Mike Fairclough / January 2, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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Having incurred some rather brutal personal losses, including my career, I am unable to pretend that speaking out is easy. This is why people self-censor. It is definitely safer to stay silent in the short-term. But what are the long-term consequences of our silence? Could, for example, the horrors of Nazi Germany and the persecution of the Jews be repeated if people are silent en-mass about anti-Semitism? Of course, you know the chilling answer to that question.

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Hope Matters in Our War

Bert Olivier / January 1, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 12 minute read

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Just as we find ourselves in ‘dark years’ at present, we cannot afford to believe for a moment that the technocratic cabal has succeeded in determining, once and for all, what our future will be – that of slaves in their AI-controlled, neo-fascist, feudal dystopia. We are free human beings, and by doing the ‘work of hope’ by seizing on opportunities that are latent in the world, to challenge them with courage, we shall prevail.

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: Review of Bobby Kennedy’s Crucial Book

Meryl Nass / January 1, 2024 / History, Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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The Wuhan Cover-Up gives you the facts, the history, and the understanding you need to grasp what is actually happening, right now. If enough of us read it, we will gain the knowledge and strength in numbers to stop and defund the biowarfare industry, revoke these terrible laws, and lay down our deep, unconscious fears regarding contagion.

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To Starve our Feudal Overlords of Attention

Thomas Harrington / December 31, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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As Covid showed us, an unusually high number of those trotted out to us by our “noble” class as possessing inordinate wisdom are little more than self-interested charlatans. But they retain much of their prominence because many people, having been told again and again that their own observational and reasoning skills are terminally inadequate, hand over those tasks to those presented to them as inordinately wise.

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The Year that Expertise Collapsed

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 31, 2023 / History, Society / 10 minute read

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To replace the expert class – and this is a long-term strategy and one that unfolds gradually with bold efforts such as that undertaken by Brownstone Institute – we need a new and serious effort to rebuild serious thought based on honesty, sincere engagement across ideological lines, and a genuine commitment to truth and freedom. We have that opportunity right now, and we dare not decline to take up the task with every sense of urgency and passion. As always, your support of our work is greatly appreciated.

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