As the ideal of representative democracy moved to the center of European and American life, those slated to lose power began touting a modern wisdom that would spare us the inefficiency of government by and for the people.
Being unheard and vilified has broken public trust in the underpinning institutions of democracy. In the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, less than half the people in high-income developed countries trust their government, media, business, and NGOs.
The urgent task for the Resistance is to define a political economy that addresses the failures of conservatism, liberalism, and progressivism while charting a way forward that destroys fascism and restores freedom and human flourishing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
