[The following is an excerpt from Thomas Harrington’s book, The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.]
I will begin with the necessary preventions. I am not an epidemiologist nor do I have any medical expertise. I have, …
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 …
Save the Voters, Replace the Schools
It’s a modern fetish that we’re brilliant while our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn’t have iPhones, the Internet, or Kim Kardashian.
This is also academic consensus, for what it’s worth: called the Flynn effect, the idea is people …
The Seven Deadly Sins of Our World
I. When did the crisis begin?
Lots of writers in the Resistance try to figure out when the crisis began (the crisis being that global monopoly capitalism is trying to enslave the entire developed world via chronic illness).
Obviously the …
What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies?
Years ago as an intern in D.C., and long before the agencies all locked their doors to visitors, I had the occasion to putter around the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These were obviously …
More on Time Theft
We live in a four-dimensional world. I work with binocular vision and one of the goals in much of the therapy we do involves establishing the ability to appreciate motion in three of those dimensions, and to sustain that in …
Who Is Tim Walz?
In April of 2020, our portly, red-faced Aw, shucks governor, Tim Walz, was my hero.
He’d closed the public schools in our state on March 15th, but spoke—this former teacher and coach—with solemn grace. “I want to be very clear …
Rate Cuts Will Achieve Nothing
Here is the result of the Fed’s misbegotten pro-inflation policy since it officially adopted its 2.00% target in January 2012. According to our trusty 16% trimmed mean CPI, the price level is up by +41% since then, and was still …
Time to Connect the Dots
It was an otherwise normal day in 1969 when I found the book. I was a student in Vienna for my junior year of undergrad. Like most students, I had a room with a Hausfrau, normally an elderly lady who …
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 …
You Might Own Nothing Sooner Than You Think
Imagine a world where ownership is a distant memory, replaced by an eerie semblance of joy in dispossession. In 2016, Klaus Schwab, the enigmatic architect of the World Economic Forum, foretold a future whereby, in 2024, humanity would be stripped …
What Did $6.5 Trillion in Money Printing Achieve?
Here we go again. The Fed has spent the last 16 years fueling the mother of all financial bubbles on Wall Street. And by way of spillover effects on the mortgage market, it has also fostered parallel bubbles in commercial …
Questions about New Amendments to the 2024 IHRs
On June 1, 2024, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted a series of new amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHRs). In doing so, the World Health Organization proclaimed that these amendments will “build on lessons learned from several global …