A Frivolous People No Longer
It might be time to reject those who tell us that life is a frivolous game and to remind them that to have enduring worth it must center on the art of coming together in the face of our fears.
Veganism and the Covid Panic
Both ideologies locate our interactions with the animal world as the root of corruption. Veganism aims to isolate us from causing the death of animals; while Covidism aims to isolate us from microbial life forms that may cause our death.
Glimpse into the Future of Food
The World Economic Forum, governments, and multinational agencies want to redesign our food supply. So-called plant-based meats, lab-grown meats, “synbio” products, insect protein, and other totally new foods are to replace much of the real meat people enjoy.
Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess?
The Zuckerberg admission provides a first official and confirmed peek into the greatest scandal of our times and the global silencing of critics, resulting in manipulating election outcomes, the marginalization of dissent, and the overriding of all free speech protections.
The Rise of Global Conformism
Opposition to global conformism does not mean retreating into an attitude of suspicion and hostility to all things foreign, new, or unfamiliar. The world’s various peoples often influence each other by the attractions and achievements of their respective societies.
We No Longer Ponder the Good Life
I cannot remember the last discussion I had about the Good Life. When we consider that this question has been one of the mainstays of Western intellectual life for more than 2,500 years, its absence from our public is alarming.
This Is Not Capitalism
Just because something is available in the consumer marketplace does not necessarily mean that it is a product of the voluntary matrix of exchange that would otherwise profit in a genuinely free market.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Our World
We need a revolution to replace the Covidians with people who understand liberty. But even once we take power and restore the basic freedoms of the past 250 years, we need checks and balances for science and medicine.
The Forces That Imperil Public Order
Public disquiet has grown but bubbled along under the surface for decades at serially repeating instances of police refusing to enforce the law for fear of transgressing multicultural and woke pieties…
Toward an Archaeology of Anger
Anger: What is its role? How do we interpret it? How do we wield and transform it? These are questions that may be key to understanding how to engage with those around us as we attempt to restore our world.
The Kafkaesque Phaseout of the Pandemic Penal Colony
Every so often, a narrative plays out that can only be described as “Kafkaesque”—a term that refers to anything that might be “suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings; especially, having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality.”
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Our Government’s “Whole-of-Society” Rule
For those who don’t want to be ruled by a whole of society party-state, the political question is how to dismantle this machinery. Whatever the remedy, it must involve a reestablishment of the distinction between government and civil society.