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 …
We No Longer Ponder the Good Life
Last night I went out with friends and had a wonderful conversation about what constitutes the “Good Life.” This came on the heels of a marathon discussion, a few days earlier, with my three adult children and several of their …
It’s Disney Girl vs Oasis Man
Finding myself at a birthday party for much younger celebrants this weekend, I felt a wraith among the living. My life’s ambition to look like Michelle Pfeiffer had finally been realised — only it was the Stardust Pfeiffer, a 5,000-year-old …
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 …
The Conservative Party needs a hero
When the six MPs vying to be Conservative leader were recently asked some quick-fire questions by party HQ, their interrogation was mostly limited to the light-hearted: “What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?” But …
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 …
The Trajectory of Emergency Lands on Price Controls
The US’s serious bout of inflation – mirrored in many countries in the world – was set in motion in the first week of March 2020, like much of the rest of our ongoing emergency. This was a fortnight before …
Lessons from Poland: Elites and the Bonds We Forge
One of the great gifts of my life was wandering into a class on Contemporary Poland in college taught by a humane and deeply knowledgeable man named James T. Flynn. There, for the first time, I was forced to address …
The Republicans’ weird problem predates Vance
Politics has taken an unexpected turn. For decades, weirdness was associated with the Democrats. Excessively concerned with a culture war most Americans don’t care about while remaining captive to parochial subcultures — this used to be the purview of the …
Episode 464 – The Media Conspiracy
I’m still on August hiatus, but here’s a two-hour lecture on the history of mass media to tide you over until September!
Source: The Corbett Report Read the original article here: https://corbettreport.com …
The Stasi: Masters of PsyWar
From 1950 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi, operated as the main security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany or GDR). In terms of …
My summer with Gibbon
The year 1776 was an eventful one. The August issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine duly carried a curious document from across the ocean called “The Declaration of American Independence”, before proceeding to a more serious matter: a review of a …
Nixon vs. McGovern 2.0
Any number of pundits and social commentators are looking at the current presidential election matchup between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in terms of its historical, societal, or political ramifications. They’ve come up with several hypotheses, some of which are …
Science, Society, and Stability
The various approaches to education differ according to ideology – liberal, communist, and so on – and depending on what discipline is dominant at any given time. So, for example, in the 19th century, there was a time when the …