Evil in a Box
That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and necessarily time-bound case of evil “in a box.” Why?
Recession Since 2022: US Economic Income and Output Have Fallen Overall for Four Years
In this study we aim to quantify some of the more egregious biases in inflation statistics in order to get us closer to a true understanding of inflation since 2019, hence of true economic growth since 2019.
Hope and Moral Repair
It is all too easy, when in the middle of a crisis, to give up. But to fix what ails us, we don’t have to fix everything in one moment or one action. We only need to make a start.
Homeschooling Gave Medicine a Blueprint
Medicine needs its own equivalent of the homeschool movement. Just as homeschooling deinstitutionalized education, so we need to de-medicalize healthcare. Medical professionals have our role—just as professional teachers continued to have a role assisting the pioneers of homeschooling.
John Kerry and the Circuitous Assault on Free Speech
Mere words cannot restrain our aspiring censors from weaponizing their power to silence dissent. Enemies of the First Amendment vow to “hammer it out of existence,” as John Kerry explained this week, and they are prepared to circumvent legal protections.
John Kerry and the Circuitous Assault on Free Speech Continue Reading
Western Civilization Declaration
With the following Western Civilization Declaration, our intention is to make a strong case in the public for the foundations of our civilization still being an appropriate guide for the future of humanity.
The “Financial Coup” That Seized America
In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, former chief economist of the IMF Simon Johnson warned that the same dysfunctional policies he saw in his basketcase banana republics had taken hold in the United States.
Migration, Assimilation, and the Limits of Compassion
Neither Europe nor the United States can admit all who want to come or support those who manage to infiltrate the nations unlawfully. European and North American nations cannot absorb the large-scale and growing immigration numbers.
Migration, Assimilation, and the Limits of Compassion Continue Reading
Political Renewal, Intellectual Revival
Indications of a renewed political sense abound. What seems to have been a dormant political awareness is being revived. Not only the intellectual activities under the auspices of Brownstone Institute testify to this; the growth of ‘patriotic’ activities is significant.
Endocrine Disruptors: An Uncontrolled Experiment?
Kennedy mentioned endocrine disruptors, chemicals in our food and water that can interfere with the body’s hormone biosynthesis. He spoke about how the poorly regulated use of these synthetic chemicals in the environment could affect fertility, sperm counts, and reproductive development.
Endocrine Disruptors: An Uncontrolled Experiment? Continue Reading
Lockdowns Codified a World of Violence
What purpose are all these soft, hard, public, and private exercises of violence serving? The standard of living is suffering, lives are shortening, and illiteracy has swept through an entire generation. It unleashed violence as a way of life.
The New Sectarianism
We should also remember, that whether by war or a peaceful transition, fascism dies and with it the stale, dead, obedient, loyalist generation. They will have no graveyard, no tombstones, no memorials and no one will remember their names.