A few weeks ago, we woke to various bloviating regarding last night’s first presidential debate. Depending on which side you hold, your preferred candidate won. They may have had a disappointing performance, but the other candidate is a liar. One …
The Media’s Latest Pathetic Blame Game
By late 2020, the media and public health establishment had two obsessions. One of their obsessions involved forcing the public to wear masks, even though the mountains of data and several studies had already confirmed that they don’t stop the …
Anatomy of Money and the State
A couple of weeks ago, a slim brown paper-wrapped package arrived in my rural postbox. Clearly, a small paperback had been sent to me unsolicited by the Mises Institute. Title? “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” by the genius …
Russia and Richard Cobden 1836
Russia and America each seem “called by a secret design of Providence to hold the destinies of half the world one day.”
The words are from 1835. They come at the end of the first volume of Democracy in America …
The Hate Must Stop
After years of hateful and mean rhetoric, an assassination attempt at a Trump rally took the life of a person in the audience and critically injured two others. The shooter was killed […]
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Censorship and the Corruption of Advertising
The most powerful companies in the world have united against free speech, and they’ve deployed your tax dollars to fund their mission.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee released a report on the little-known Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) …
The Censorship Boomerang
Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich NietzscheThey fooled themselves. The censorship meant to keep regular people in the dark instead blinded the pseudo-elite censors and their friends.
The …
The Ultimate Monument to Journalism
An assassin took several shots at Donald Trump. A poor debate performance exposed the senility of President Biden. Some of the headlines the media have produced have been utterly beyond belief. The meme of the “Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Protests” …
My Professional Journey through Infectious Disease
In previous Brownstone Journal posts, I provided a view of American healthcare from the 30,000-foot level, and an experience I had back in 1978, while an internal medicine resident that had a profound impact on my subsequent professional practice. Today, …
Voters Take Vengeance on the Tories
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the rise of the New Right and its challenge to the liberal consensus on social, economic, and environmental policies; the displacement of the old left-right ideological divide by that between the inner city managerial-technocratic …
Voters Take Vengeance on the Tories
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the rise of the New Right and its challenge to the liberal consensus on social, economic, and environmental policies; the displacement of the old left-right ideological divide by that between the inner city managerial-technocratic …
SCOTUS Delivers a Victory for the People
The past few years, our Independence Day has taken on even more importance. Our way of life, the American way, is under attack. It’s constant. It’s on all levels – social, economic, religious, medical, legal…Anyone who doesn’t think there are …
Medical Education: A Critical Crossroads
Twenty years ago, as Director of Resident Education for the Department of Ophthalmology of a midwestern medical school, I was given a new task: transform our training program from structure-based to competency-based. There had been a sea change in medical …
A Western Diet, Hold the Worms
What would happen if a person consumed a spoiled egg-salad sandwich from an intergalactic gas station bathroom vending machine? In trying to answer this age-old question, “Parasite Lost,” a 2001 episode from the first run of the perennially resurrected Matt …
During the Crisis, Free Speech Worked Brilliantly
There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship. That is X, once known as Twitter, and owned by Elon Musk, who has preached free speech for years and sacrificed billions in advertising dollars in …