Original article (via Brownstone Institute) The most dramatic narrative shift in this post-lockdown period has been the flip in the perceptions of government itself. For decades and even centuries, government was seen as the essential bulwark to defend the poor, empower the marginalized, realize justice, even the playing field in […]
“Protecting Free Speech and the Inception of Brownstone Institute”
Melissa Blasek details the story in Bow, New Hampshire, making national headlines and the activism efforts to support free speech and girls-only sports. She is joined by Jeffrey Tucker, Founder and President of Brownstone Institute, who discusses the inception of the Brownstone Institute and the “failure” of the liberty movement […]
“The Amateur Who Unraveled Wuhan”
Originally published on Brownstone Institute Matthew Tye, an independent documentarian with a chronicled decade of living in (and motorcycling throughout) China, developed a profound understanding of its culture and language. In March 2020, Tye emerged as a singular figure in the scrutiny of the origins of the Covid-19 virus, using […]
“The Emergency Deepens”
Original article The real economic crisis was kicked off with the lockdowns of March 2020. Since then, the whole system has been held together with scotch tape and bubble gum, plus an overlay of manipulated data. So the panic that has suddenly hit – recession in the air! – is […]
“Two Weeks to Flatten Became Eight Months to Change the Election”
In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought to establish a uniform time for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason such as illness or military service to qualify for absentee ballots. […]
“Perverse Incentives”
I. Introduction We live in a world awash in perverse incentives. A perverse incentive is when the rules, structures, or practices of any system reward bad behavior or sociopathic outcomes. I had to come up with my own definition because all of the official definitions claim that perverse incentives are unintended. […]
The Truth Business Leaders Need to Face
Originally published at Brownstone Institute Silent disruption of population health and human potential is causing a decline in economic growth and increased poverty worldwide. The number of citizens losing trust in leaders from public-private partnerships that ruled and mandated public health and climate policies and are responsible for eroding human […]
The Meaning of the Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration
Cape Byron Lighthouse stands proudly on Australia’s most easterly point sending a whopping two million candelas of light, 50 kilometres out to sea each night. It is our brightest lighthouse and arguably Australia’s most famous. As the first lighthouse to welcome the dawn of a new day, each year thousands […]
The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class
The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class By Thomas S. Harrington Summary: This is one man’s chronicle, at times indignant and at others reflective, of an extraordinary moment in the history of the world, a moment of crisis whose eventual resolution will have far-reaching consequences for our […]
The Manipulation of the Public Mind
In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a […]
Hey Covid, I’ve Got Religion
For better or worse, my brain is wired to doubt. Even when I’m feeling all gooey and spiritual and thinking that maybe there’s a prime mover in charge of things, my skeptical synapses swoop in and spoil the fun, insisting my thoughts are just a trick of human biology. But the pandemic—or […]
Brown University’s Silence on Post-Vaccine Myocarditis
A well-designed observational study of the entire French population, just published on June 25 in Nature, has again definitively confirmed (here; here; here; here) observations first noted during February, 2021: covid-19 mRNA vaccination confers an excess risk for serious inflammation (here; here) of the heart—both its muscle (“myocarditis”), and suspending covering (“pericarditis”)—particularly in men under […]