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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, …
Black Swan, White Swan
by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
—Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
It takes one second for a raindrop to fall 32 feet and 3-6 seconds to take a breath. …
Signs of Untruthfulness
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
Some things signal untruthfulness. One sign of untruthfulness is, of course, the uttering of untrue statements. Sometimes you know about the matter in question, and the statement disagrees with your understanding. …
It was the childishness that pushed me over the edge. As news broke of the forthcoming parliamentary vote on assisted dying, a slew of statements from politicians emerged, each one more simplistically emotive and Manichean than the last.
Labour MP …
Evil in a Box
by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute
One of my favorite songs from the classic movie Oliver Twist was “Who Will Buy?” which contains the following passage:
Who will buy
This wonderful morning?
Such a sky
You …
Schopenhauer: Humanity’s Fall to Irrationality
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
In the third section of The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche quotes the ancient tragedian, Sophocles, where he writes:
There is an …
Hope and Moral Repair
by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute
[The following is an excerpt from Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.]
We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s …
Don’t Let the ‘Infaux Thugs’ Close Down Debate
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
Today’s censors wield cudgels with the word ‘information.’ Content they don’t like they call ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation.’ The justification is fake. The protection is faux protection. …
The Carbon Alarmists Are Silent about This
by Eric Hussey at Brownstone Institute
I value thought experiments as useful tools to understand how things work. Thought experiments, also known as idealized experiments, have a surprisingly noble history. For example, Albert …
Political Renewal, Intellectual Revival
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
It is undeniable that we stand at a historical juncture where something new is in the process of being born – preferably not W.B. Yeats’s ‘rough beast, its hour come …