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Double Standards, Reparations, and War Crimes
Joan Wallach Scott, a historian who is a professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has come up with a most valuable insight. She is decidedly not “one of us,” but...
WaPo Editors: “Liberty” Requires Us to Implement Vaccine Passports
Mandating private and government employees to be immunized against covid-19 and requiring the use of standardized electronic passes as proof of immunization across the nation is what liberty is made of, the editors of...
The End of the Gold Standard. Fifty Years of Monetary Insanity
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary since Nixon suspended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold. This began the era of a global fiat money, debt-fueled economy. Since then, crises are more frequent...
Vaccine Mandates and the “Great Reset”
Pressure on the unvaccinated grows. While the vaccinated in some countries are getting back some of their freedoms taken away by the covid interventions, the unvaccinated are not so well off. They are being...
Lithuania’s Crackdown on the Unvaccinated
O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven,
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
A brother's murther!
–Hamlet, act 3, scene 3
Violations of fundamental human rights and the mistreatment of human beings are not a...
Covid: How the West Embraced Central Planning and Abandoned Human Rights
In January 2020, Hubei and more than a dozen other provinces in mainland China implemented totalitarian lockdown measures, such as the closure of schools and workplaces, and strict restrictions on travel and mobility, including...
How to Use Democracy To Deny Human Rights
“You gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.”
– Mark Twain
Since its rebirth as an independent state in 1968, this paradisaic island has been...
China’s Military Strength Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
At this point, most everyone is now familiar with a certain narrative about China. Namely, the narrative about how China will soon be the most economically powerful country in the world, and how its...
When a Fallacy Isn’t Really a Fallacy
Students often ask me to recommend a good introduction to philosophy, and now the question can be answered more easily than in years past. Michael Huemer’s Knowledge, Value, and Reality, published last April, contains a...
A Legacy of Corruption in the FDA and Big Pharma
Our healthcare system is broken, a fact nobody would have disputed in precovid days. Regulatory capture is a reality, and the pharmaceutical industry is fraught with examples. Yet we trusted private-public partnerships to find...