The arrest of Pavel Durov in France last week offered yet another distressing sign for the dire state of free speech in the West.
As we’ve repeatedly seen in the United States, parties that once dedicated themselves to free expression …
SCOTUS Versus Free Speech
In a 6 to 3 ruling on the Murthy v. Missouri case, the Supreme Court ruled against me and my fellow co-plaintiffs, in effect rendering the US First Amendment a dead letter in the social media age. At stake in …
Anchors in a Sea of Chaos
Dear friends,
Things are getting quite interesting in the mainstream media. Here and there, something real is seeping through the omnipresent facade.
I read in an opinion paper in the New York Times (author: Maureen Dowd) that Biden was removed …
My Board Certifications Have Been Revoked
I will just start by saying that I believe that the ABIM’s decision was 100% predetermined even before we first received their accusation in June 2022. There was no way they were going to declare us innocent of misinformation, even though …
My Board Certifications Have Been Revoked
I will just start by saying that I believe that the ABIM’s decision was 100% predetermined even before we first received their accusation in June 2022. There was no way they were going to declare us innocent of misinformation, even though …
We need to talk about violent speech
As the British justice system continues to lock up overzealous keyboard warriors linked to the riots, and as free speech “warriors” respond with dystopian grumblings about an Orwellian police state, we find ourselves in a strange situation. Put to one …
How to Defeat the Censorship Industrial Complex
One of my colleagues, a medical doctor, that I often “tour” with on what many refer to as the “freedom” circuit, texted me a meme a while ago that I just love. Well, to be honest, I actually despise it …
Our Government’s “Whole-of-Society” Rule
Last year, Jacob Siegel at Tablet magazine published a long investigative piece on the censorship-industrial complex, “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century,” which is well worth reading. More recently, he published a superb follow-up essay, “Learn This …
The UK Riots: Misinformation Causes Everything
A massive attack on civil liberties is underway in the wake of a week of rioting in the UK. For politicians, the media, NGOs, and academics our old friend “misinformation” shares a large portion of the blame. It is the excuse that keeps …
Project 2025: A Plan to Fix Free Speech?
Project 2025, a conservative road map to remake the administrative state, has been taking hits for several weeks. Democrats and the liberal media have been provoking panic attacks among their followers, insinuating a dark plan to overthrow democracy. “Hiding the 920-page …
How the NYT undermined mask evidence
Amid the storm of US election headlines in recent weeks, a snippet of news began bubbling up on social media that, only a few years ago, would have whipped up a frenzied media hurricane. President Biden had tested positive for …
How Big Tech Spawned Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism is a novel economic system that has emerged in the digital era. It is characterized by the unilateral claim of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. In this version of capitalism, predicting and influencing …
Letitia James vs. VDARE and the First Amendment
If a red-state politician weaponized the justice system to shut down a left-wing advocacy group, the media would surely invoke references to a parade of horribles including all the 20th century’s most loathsome dictators.
But in New York, state Attorney …
Missouri v. Biden/Kennedy v. Biden Update
As I explained in previous posts, back in 2023 the District Court combined (enjoined) our Missouri v. Biden case against government censorship with a similar case, Kennedy v. Biden, filed in the same court by plaintiffs Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, …
Labour’s war on free speech
An unspoken maxim looms over the free speech crisis in our universities: it is only ever denied by those whose views fall in line with the current orthodoxy. For all its faults, and there were many, Britain’s previous government recognised …
