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The Invisible Leash

Josh Stylman June 18, 2025

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This isn’t just the completion of digital enslavement—it’s the creation of a reality where human agency becomes impossible. The invisible leash becomes the very categories through which you understand choice, identity, thought, resistance, and survival itself.

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): A Philosopher Who Thought Against the Grain

David Thunder June 18, 2025

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Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our times, passed away. Though he was not a household name for most people, he was known to anyone seriously involved in the world of moral, social, or political philosophy.

“No Kings,” Except for the Bureaucrats

Brownstone Institute June 17, 2025

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This is the same crowd that is proclaiming to be against kings. The question is: what do they favor? If the lockdown era is any indication, this is a movement not about freedom but of Lilliputians restricting freedom of the people.