Education became a commodity. Education is treated as a purchasable, exchangeable good, which fits well with the idea that education is something that can be downloaded to anyone’s empty mind.

There can be no freedom without common laws derived from centuries of community experience that form a framework for spontaneous order.

Overbearing Nanny State despotism is what happens when government representatives adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best and therefore must control, regulate and dictate almost everything.

Belief in viruses is as deadly as the belief in the authority of the state. Many of the freedom community don’t seem to realise that changing the actors won’t free them from the plantation.

The dioxin issue is not going away. It comes up at every community meeting, U.S. senators Vance and Brown have demanded testing, and the EPA is dodging the issue. Something has to give.

Instead of heading to Tuesday night Bingo or enjoying a nice bowl of Jello, Grandma and Grandpa are going drag racing. They’re using your money to fix the car, and they’ll lecture you about their virtue after they drive it into the lake.

Violence has always been a part of my world. I write about it in my books and make no apology to anyone.

The failure to report accurately on the Trump-Russia saga for the four years of the Trump presidency is bad enough. Worse, major media organizations, which produced thousands of stories and reports that were false, refuse to engage in a serious postmortem.

For farmers, few examples of those corporate constraints are more frustrating than repair restrictions and patent rights that prevent them from saving seeds from their own crops for future planting.

Beware overtures to ‘personal responsibility’ for the response to COVID, at either the individual or national level. They may be used to deflect from corruption.

Most people think of ignorance as the absence of knowledge. Proctor and others in the field of agnotology argue the opposite — that ignorance is socially constructed in the same way that knowledge is.