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 …
XX-XY Athletics: Because Real Fairness Matters
I’m launching my very own athletic apparel brand today. It’s the first and only athletic brand to stand up for female athletes and women’s sports.
I moved away from home when I was fourteen to train at one of the …
Four Years Later
Has the dust settled?
Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in many forms: inflation, learning losses, ill-health, high crime, non-functioning government services, broken supply chains, shoddy work, displaced workers, substance abuse, …
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate
In case you’ve still got money in a bank, Bloomberg is warning that defaults in commercial real estate loans could “topple” hundreds of US banks.
Leaving taxpayers on the hook for trillions in losses.
The note, by Senior Editor James …
The Era of Informed Consent is Over
In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified in the Nuremberg Code.
On the 21st of December 2023, as we were frantically preparing for the festive season, the …
The Fall of Critical Thinking
The Covid panic and repression did not happen in a vacuum. A pattern of persecuting people rather than engaging those with dissenting opinions had already been well-established in the educational world and the mainstream mass media, making the oppressive treatment …
The White House Makes Good on Its Antitrust Threats
On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors generally. They need to get with the program and start censoring critics of Covid policy. They need to amplify government …
Journalistic Malpractice at The New York Times
An obsequious press corps now serves as the mouthpiece for the country’s vast censorship apparatus. Last Sunday, The New York Times ran a front page story “How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation.”
The Gray Lady covered the …
The WHO Pandemic Agreement: A Guide
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its 194 Member States have been engaged for over two years in the development of two ‘instruments’ or agreements with the intent of radically changing the way pandemics and other health emergencies are managed.…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Ideological Spawn of George Bush Jr.
No, the title of this piece is not a mistake, nor is it the result of an AI bot burrowing into the servers at Brownstone, removing all the content the team there had lined up for today’s edition, and replacing …
The WHO Wants to Rule the World
The World Health Organisation (WHO) will present two new texts for adoption by its governing body, the World Health Assembly comprising delegates from 194 member states, in Geneva on 27 May–1 June. The new pandemic treaty needs a two-thirds majority …
Theft by Lockdown
Five or so years ago I was clear across the country from my home in eastern Washington State, having flown to Baltimore for a meeting. At the same time one of our daughters and her family lived outside Washington, DC, …
The Crucifixion of Kulvinder Kaur
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix…
…expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows …
Don’t Slow the Spread of Joy
I like to think of myself as a logician. A rational, critical thinker ready to discard any idea when new information presents itself. Behind the facade though, there was always a passing interest in the arts. Literature in particular, but …
The Irish Government Failed to Redefine the Family
Last Friday, a large majority of Irish voters (67.7%) rejected their government’s proposal to insert a new definition of the family into the Constitution, in which “durable relationships” and not just a marital bond, could form the legal basis for …