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Are We Already in Recession?
My base case has been that we’re repeating the 1970s disaster driven by out-of-control government spending and out-of-control Fed money printing. The official numbers are matching that almost to a tee.
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The Fraught Relationship between Science and Power
The biggest breakthroughs in the history of science usually come from the outsiders. So there’s a paradox in that proper science often dies when it makes an unholy alliance with the state.
The Fraught Relationship between Science and Power Read Journal Article
The Political Imprisonment of Steve Bannon
National political leaders and thought leaders are scared, going quiet, and complying in the wake of Steve Bannon’s arrest, hoping that this silence will buy them freedom from a similar fate.
The Political Imprisonment of Steve Bannon Read Journal Article
What Is the Real Economic Story of Our Times?
We want to get to the bottom of what has happened to the US and world economy since the disaster of lockdowns. Something doesn’t feel right, and we would like to take an objective look and tell a different story.
What Is the Real Economic Story of Our Times? Read Journal Article
Do People Want Precious Freedom?
Social theorist Bauman wondered about freedom – do people really want to be free? Can they bear the challenges and responsibilities of being free? He approaches this question from the angle of ‘liberation,’ which is sometimes the prerequisite of being free.
Albania Triumphs over Hoxha’s Tyranny
Albanians are staunch anti-Communist and recoil at the suggestion that Hoxha’s excesses were justified. It is their wish that the world becomes aware of the sacrifices of the Albanian people and the importance of resisting tyranny at all costs.
Climate and Public Health: A Two-Headed Inquisition
International public health operates around a clear set of dogmas, protected by maintaining taboos on discussion of subjects that might undermine them. The growing narrative around climate and health promises to be the apogee of this approach.
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Eradication Fantasies Don’t Come Free
Over the years, I have come to fear people who suggest they are above hate, and its correlates like prejudice and anger, more than I fear people who quite openly assault me with their hostility.
Life among Anti-Life Forces
If anti-life philosophy threatens our most sacred values, then what exactly are those values which it threatens? How can we make sure that we do not lose sight of all the positive actions we can take to nourish their seeds?
Resist the Powerful Old and the Insouciant Young
We must begin to stick to our guns when both the powerful old, and the insouciant young, spring the “Agree-with-my-sound-bite-version-of-the-truth-or-be-banished” gambit on us. We need to be conflictive with them in ways that we never believed we could be.
Resist the Powerful Old and the Insouciant Young Read Journal Article
How to Protect Your Food and Medical Freedoms
If we fight now, we can build a future where local farm-to-table networks feed us, and where we choose for ourselves what we want to put in our bodies. Your health and your family’s health are at stake.
How to Protect Your Food and Medical Freedoms Read Journal Article
We Forgot Merle Haggard’s Warning
How many Americans have learned the bitter political lessons of the pandemic? As long as most people can be frightened, almost everyone can be subjugated. In the long run, people have more to fear from politicians than from viruses.