There can be no freedom without common laws derived from centuries of community experience that form a framework for spontaneous order.
Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
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.
Project Veritas and the “Virus”
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.
What must happen in and around East Palestine
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.
The Ruling Class of the Retirement Home
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.
Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools
Under the new ideological regime that has taken power both inside the federal bureaucracy and in institutions like UCSF, even medical research has become yet another front in a larger ideological battle.
Pat Conroy on Teachers, Censorship, and Banned Books
Violence has always been a part of my world. I write about it in my books and make no apology to anyone.
The Trump-Russia Saga: The Death Spiral of American Journalism
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.
Right-to-repair laws: Pushback against corporate power
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.
Corruption and COVID: We Are Not ‘All In This Together’
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.
Manufacturing ignorance: Agnotology vs. misinformation studies
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.
The War on Insensitivity
This one is about the global-capitalist thoughtpolice and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity.” Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thoughtpolice can’t stand, it is insensitivity.