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Life after Lockdown: Foreword by Rand Paul

Brownstone Institute / February 26, 2024 / Government, History, Society / 7 minute read

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In Life after Lockdown, Jeffrey Tucker paints a picture of the living hell that was the government lockdown and outlines a roadmap for never again allowing such a police state to occur. During the multiple winters of the Covid lockdown, I discovered Brownstone Institute. On the pages of Brownstone, I found not only the incisive critique of the pseudoscience put forward by Fauci and others, I also routinely came across scientists with the intellectual rigor to disassemble the unsupported scientific platitudes of the state.

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Mountains to Climb, Civilization to Save

Richard Kelly / February 23, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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Metaphorical mountains to climb abound in our senseless world these days. Everywhere one looks there are threats and injustices that need to be exposed, overcome, judged, and neutralised. No sooner is a peak crested than another, higher ridge appears in the distance.

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Americans Don’t Believe Joe Biden’s Data

Peter St Onge / February 22, 2024 / Economics, Government, Society / 3 minute read

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It’s progress for mainstream media to even consider the possibility that Americans might have a point when they say things are tough. Still, we’ve got a ways to go until media fully understands how much it has been gaslit by a regime that’s given up on serving the people.

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The Cartelization of Beauty

Thomas Harrington / February 20, 2024 / Philosophy, Society / 7 minute read

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Keeping it real thus also means making a conscious effort to find those spaces where the mediating practices of the elites are few and the chances for direct esthetic pleasure are many. And finally, and most importantly, keeping it real means ensuring that such mediation-free sanctuaries are readily available to children so that their personally constructed sense of beauty, with its wonderfully generative fantasies, is not canceled before it even has time to take flight.

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Massachusetts Gone Rogue

Meryl Nass / February 19, 2024 / Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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You would not believe how your tax dollars are being spent by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, an organization whose sole purpose is to protect the citizens of Massachusetts from rogue, incompetent medical practitioners. Especially during pandemics.

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Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 19, 2024 / Education, Society / 8 minute read

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The push to force everyone into higher education has proven to be a massive diversion of financial and human energy, and, just like Schumpeter predicted, it did the cause of freedom no favors. It has only ended up breeding debt, resentment, and an imbalance of human resources such that the people with real power are the same people least likely to possess the necessary skills to make life better. Indeed they are making it worse.

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The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case of EVs

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 15, 2024 / Economics, Policy, Society / 7 minute read

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It turns out that the entire bit, including the fake prosperity of the lockdown economy, made possible by money printing and grotesque levels of government spending, was unsustainable. Even sophisticated car companies bought into the nonsense. Now they are paying a very heavy price. The new market depended on a panic of buying that turned out to be temporary.

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Gears of the Refugee Machine

Spike Hampson / February 14, 2024 / Government, Society / 8 minute read

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In short, Americans (indeed, the entire world) now realize that the Biden administration is dedicated to getting as many illegal aliens into the country as possible. This is, of course, aiding and abetting illegal behavior, but rampant corruption in the media, academia, and politics ignores or dismisses it.

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Foxes and Hedgehogs

Julie Ponesse / February 13, 2024 / History, Society / 26 minute read

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The philosopher Isaiah Berlin starts his 1953 essay, “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” with this perplexing proverb attributed to the Greek poet Archilochus. Berlin goes on to explain that there are two types of thinkers: hedgehogs, who see the world through the lens of a “single central vision,” and foxes, who pursue many different ideas, seizing upon a variety of experiences and explanations simultaneously.

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Political Shrinkflation

el gato malo / February 13, 2024 / Government, Society / 3 minute read

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And his ruinous speech/diatribe defending himself that came off more like “old man yells at clouds” than “elder statesman,” Senor Biden is taking big hits left and right. And the knives are fully out for him and in plain view. No one is hiding anymore.

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Intellectuals for Sale

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 12, 2024 / Society / 12 minute read

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We’ve lived through this and seen too much to have the same level of trust we once had. What can we do? We can rebuild the ideal as it existed in the old world. The kind of genius we know was on display in a place like Salamanca, or in interwar Vienna, or even in the coffee houses of London in the 18th century, can return, even if on a small level. They have to, simply because the shape of the world around us depends fundamentally on the ideas we hold about ourselves and the world around us. Those should not be for sale to the highest bidder.

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The Forgetting Is Mandatory

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 10, 2024 / Government, History, Society / 10 minute read

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We dare not comply with this mandatory forgetting. We must remember, and take full account of the deception and destruction the ruling class has caused for no other reason than profits and power. Only then we can learn the right lessons and rebuild on a better foundation for the future.

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