Last month, a young student at Eton College died at the age of 17 years while playing games at the College fields. Unfortunately, this sad event is not an isolated incident. During the same week, a different young football player …
We’ve Forgotten Kant’s Moral Lesson
In the 18th century Immanuel Kant – arguably the most important philosopher of the historical European Enlightenment – gave us what is known as a ‘deontological (duty-oriented)’ moral philosophy, as opposed to, for example, a ‘consequentialist’ variety, or one that …
The Rich Get Richer: Thank the Fed
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and it’s all thanks to the Federal Reserve.
Last week the Fed released a new study that wealth of the top 1% in America hit an all time high of …
Australia Bins 35% of Covid Vaccine Supply
As part of its pandemic response, the Australian government purchased 267.3 million doses of Covid vaccines, enough to vaccinate Australia’s population of approximately 26 million people ten times over.
But figures released to Dystopian Down Under by the Department of …
The Nursing Home Paradox
The title of this post should have been given to a study that was published in 2022. I have missed that publication until recently, perhaps because of its uninformative title: “Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality.” There is …
Is the Swamp Drainable?
Jeffrey Tucker, perhaps America’s most prominent “adult in the room,” penned another mature and wise column at Brownstone today.
In this essay, Jeffrey highlights several positive developments he sees in society and opines that society’s elites are increasingly being discredited…and …
Pfizer Lied to Us Again
There used to be a time where claims from pharmaceutical companies may have been treated with some degree of skepticism from major institutions and media outlets.
Yet in late 2020 and into 2021, suddenly skepticism turned to complete blind faith. …
Is the Overton Window Real, Imagined, or Constructed?
The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there. There are things you can say and things you …
Norway Lockdowns: A Retrospective
History has never seen anything like the globally coordinated lockdowns of mid-March 2020, with nearly every nation in the world simultaneously jettisoning its laws and liberties in favor of an experiment without precedent, one without a clear goal or exit …
A Devil’s New American Lexicon
In 1942, C.S. Lewis published The Screwtape Letters, in which Screwtape, a devil, mentored his nephew Wormwood on how to manage his patient, so as to serve their common spiritual master. Screwtape advised: “Jargon, not argument, is your best ally …
The Bison Advantage
They say that bison are the only animals that purposefully walk into a storm rather than drifting with the wind because they know that doing so will get them through it faster.
I often think about the decision I made …
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death
Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is therefore strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandemic to continue, and even more so …
Is Censorship the Biden Era’s Torture Issue?
During last month’s Supreme Court hearing on a landmark case on federal censorship, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson declared, “My biggest concern is…the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” Her comment was mystifying because that is the whole point …
“Fear”: One Year Later
For many years I had wanted to write a book, but as a young person I thought I needed to learn about something important before I wrote about it. After working as a research technician in a few labs at …
Australian Senate to Investigate Excess Mortality
Some people claim that 60 percent of all statistics, like this one, is just made up out of thin air. All statistics in relation to Covid – numbers infected, infection and case fatality rates, deaths from and with Covid, the …
