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The Banalization of Education
by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute
The self-evident degradation of educational quality in our society today has several causes. But of all of them there are three that most immediately come to mind.
The first is …
The Season for Living
by Sinead Murphy at Brownstone Institute
In October 2020, Bob Moran published a cartoon privately on social media. Bob was still employed by the Telegraph newspaper, though he would soon be sacked from this position.
Bob’s …
War, Revolution, and Ambition
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
There are several wars happening in the world at present – those in the Middle East, the one in Ukraine, and recently the renewed war in Syria. Anyone who has …
The Philosophy of Provisionality
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
Everything we do as humans is provisional. Because of time’s eroding power, everything is revisable. There is a reason for the word ‘decision’ being a part of our language. Not …
Go Paint the Porch
by Christine Black at Brownstone Institute
“Move through life looking for signs and messages,” said Rosanne at a meeting of a group I belong to. What a lovely idea, I thought, and what a wonderful way …
Our Last Innocent Moment Is Our First Step Forward
by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute
This lecture takes us back into history for two reasons. First, it reminds us of a Canadian who was looking at the Canada of his …
Humanity Is Complex, Not Complicated
by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute
Western politics and progressive logic are generally dominated by the idea that, when encountering a problem or injustice, it is better to act than not. There is injustice in …
Death Is to Become the Lifestyle of Choice
by Sinead Murphy at Brownstone Institute
On Saturday 21st September, my neighbour collapsed and died while walking the hills of Northumberland. The coroner’s report confirmed only that she had had a heart …
Complex Systems and the U.S. Election
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
With the US presidential election mere days away, American citizens first and foremost – but also people in other countries, given what is at stake – need to …
Loss of the Medical Mezoi and Medical Citizenship
by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute
We are living amid a Great Ethical Collapse. Medicine has failed us in the past four years. But that failure has been part of a much …
A mere glance at the headlines underscores what most working people under 40 intuit. Unfathomable wealth inequality, flat or barely improving wages, falling life expectancy, and a massive housing shortage are overturning the hard-won gains of the 20th century. And …
Early in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, a magician performs a trick with a small bird which disappears in a cage flattened on the table. A small boy in the audience starts to cry, distraught that the bird was killed. The …
Dissent: Gaps in the Regime
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
At certain times in history, sometimes protracted events have occurred that demonstrated the power of dissent – that (as far as we know) uniquely human capacity to express strong …
Us Classical Liberals Versus Them Populists
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
I was recently watching the video “Are Populists Destroying Democracy?” on the IEA’s YouTube channel, in which the IEA’s Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz interviewed Swedish political scientist Nils …
Amazon’s Threefold Injustice
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
The book The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, appeared in 2018. It explained trends that have remade much of American life, like safetyism, cancel culture, …