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 …
Are We Already in Recession?
Have we already entered a recession? Worse, have we been in a recession for years now?
Recently I joined Jeff Tucker of Brownstone Institute on an article about the Herculean task of trying to figure out what’s actually happening in …
Administrative State Power Suffers Major Blow
In a major blow to US Federal Administrative State power, the US Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference precedent by a 6 to 3 vote. Chevron deference is an administrative law principle that compels federal courts to defer to a …
The Fraught Relationship between Science and Power
I would like to start a conversation on the relationship between science and power. By “science” I mean the field of study (trying to figure out how the world works) and the people doing the studying (scientists, and, in an …
Standing…The Myth, The Legend, The Lie
There have been a myriad of articles in the past couple of days regarding the United States Supreme Court’s (“SCOTUS”) controversial decision in Murthy v. Missouri (formerly known as Missouri v. Biden) which the Court published on June 26. Because …
The Political Imprisonment of Steve Bannon
On July 1, 2024, the US detained its most prominent political prisoner; its most obvious political prisoner probably since the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in World War 2.
On July 1, 2024, podcaster, entrepreneur, former Navy officer, and political advisor to …
Censors Everywhere We Look
It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
O’Brien, Officer of the Inner Party1984, by George Orwell, Berkley/Penguin p. 225
We’re letting you know that …
The History We Make Today
After a discussion of Western bourgeois confidence in work, the present and the future, as well as Henry Ford’s disdain for history and tradition in favour of the present (‘the history we make today’), Zygmunt Bauman (Liquid Modernity, p. 132) …
The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup
We’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023, but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the US, abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional …
Immunology Needs Physics Envy
I’ve been reading The Economist magazine for the past year. It’s the vanguard of a particular branch of bougie, British, neoliberalism — usually not my cup of tea. But I believe it’s important for me to understand how that particular tribe sees …
G3P: Global Public-Private Partnerships and the UN
Basically, the government leaders are bribed by business leaders to co-sign and fund imaginary threats that create policies that benefit connected businesses. Essentially, monopolies or oligopolies are formed where economic rents are extracted from unsuspecting populations. The connected business leaders …