Today, there is an official and extremist public attitude of Russia hate. Few may know how far back it goes. Here I share quotations from 1836. You decide whether the quotations seem apt as criticism of today’s Russia hate.
Stories aside, today, an array of fact-checking organizations have been built, and accusations of fake news or misinformation fly with reckless abandon. Yet, the news, easier to consume than ever before, retains the same problems Dumas wrote about.
But for X, the last 24 hours would have looked very different: nothing but propaganda, apart from a few marginal places here and there. Therein lies another irony: the way X is managed is increasing trust rather than reducing it.
During the Crisis, Free Speech Worked Brilliantly Read Journal Article
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Climate and Public Health: A Two-Headed Inquisition Read Journal Article
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.
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?
