Several new polls have appeared that confirm what you suspected. Trust in medical authority and pharmaceutical giants, along with their core product, have hit new lows. The first comes from Gallup. “Fewer Americans today consider childhood vaccines important, with 40...
Jeffrey A. Tucker
First Dogs, Then Humans
Quietly and without press attention, in the past 10 years most governments of the world have started requiring that dogs be microchipped. The chip contains information on vaccine records and health generally, along with owner information including phone number....
How Did a Small Group Do This?
A very interesting study appeared last week by two researchers looking into the pandemic policy response around the world. They are Drs. Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel of Stanford and Harvard, respectively. Their ambition was straightforward. They wanted to examine...
The Foundations of Internet Freedom
Twelve years ago, I wrote a book called “A Beautiful Anarchy,” which was a celebration of how the internet had evolved until that point in time. It largely operated in a decentralized manner, with businesses thriving within a spontaneous order. The web browser was...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
A Limited Hangout on Vaccine Harms
Well, it’s finally happened. The New York Times (NYT) has acknowledged COVID vaccine harms. In a major piece written by their top pandemic reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, the paper has written of “thousands” the world over who have experienced when it is more like...
City Office Space Is Tanking
Sometimes economics can be boring. That happens when you know for sure that something is coming and nothing can stop it. And yet mainstream opinion is utterly in denial, continually shocked by the unfolding of the inevitable. That’s when it gets frustrating. After...
Letter From Europe
Never before in world history has a single policy, rooted in nothing but preposterous antics and cruel dystopias imposed by force, so quickly taken over the entire planet Earth. This happened in 2020 with the futile attempt to contain a coronavirus that leaked from a...
A Coup Without Firing a Shot
The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological. The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that turned out to be what...
Why Is a UFC Fighter Promoting Mises and Austrian Economics?
Renato Moicano is a UFC fighter from Brazil who made a big splash at an event this weekend. In a rather remarkable moment he used his time at the microphone to push a school of economic thought. “If you care about your country,” he said, “read Ludwig von Mises and the...
Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?
My first article on the coming backlash—admittedly wildly optimistic—went to print April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of lockdown, I confidently predicted a political revolt, a movement against masks, a population-wide revulsion against the elites, a demand to reject...
The Freedom That Once Was the Internet
It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace. It’s dead. We might as well face it. Nearly every large application and website in existence, meaning most of what people use on what we call the internet, constituting an estimated 95 percent of...
Is the Deep State Really Awesome?
For years, corporate media made fun of people (like me) who wrote about the existence of the deep state. This is just wild paranoia, they said. There is no such thing! Oh really? Yep, that’s what they said. And when Donald Trump said he would drain the swamp,...
What If Renewable Energy Is a Racket?
A strange thing happened the other day. A large-scale solar panel farm in Fort Bend County, Texas, thousands of acres right in the middle of oil country, experienced a rough hailstorm. That’s not entirely unusual for the region. I grew up in Texas, and it was always...