Commentary The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on Feb. 7, 2023. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last October and the subsequent reporting on the Twitter Files by journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and a handful of others beginning in early December is one of the most important news stories of…
The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat
February 9, 2023
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Liberalism as We Knew It Is Extinct
February 9, 2023
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Commentary There were two simultaneous hearings yesterday in the House now ruled by Republicans. The first concerned Big Tech censorship and featured Twitter ex-employees being grilled on their role in controlling the public mind in ways that were politically biased. It was mostly boring of course but I was struck by how many times the…
Documentary Exposes Rise of the Unaccountable Fourth Branch of Government, Rule by Experts
A new documentary film attempting to throw light on the rise of government power wielded by unelected experts–known today as the fourth branch of government, or the administrative state—launched online Jan. 27. This unaccountable administrative state, which is reined in at the margins by the courts from time to time, is why laws today largely…
When the New Right Meets the Old Left on ESG
Commentary This month, conservative critics of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing had something of a surprise—an almost-simultaneous attack on their views from both Left and Right mounting remarkably similar arguments. Writing for CNBC last week, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the Senate’s climate-denier-witch-finder-in-chief, together with Senators Brian Schatz and Martin Heinrich, denounced state Republican officials for their stand against financial institutions…
Say No to the VAT
January 18, 2023
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Commentary Last week, a light appeared on the dark horizon. It seemed like some Republicans were getting serious about reforms we need to save the country from a pillaging ruling class that has been stealing everything not nailed down. It seemed like perhaps some wise people were thinking about radical and dramatic reform to restore…
Modeling Gone Bad
Commentary A new paper documents that the pre-vaccination case fatality rate was extremely low in the non-elderly population. Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in the non-elderly population Environmental Research, Volume 216, Part 3, 1 January 2023, 114655 Abstract “The largest burden of COVID-19 is carried by the elderly, and persons living in nursing homes…
How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives
December 28, 2022
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Commentary From the beginning of the COVID panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights. What made it more bizarre was how alone those of us who objected felt until very…
The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning
December 9, 2022
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Commentary Last night was quite the ride. Bari Weiss, who left the New York Times in protest against the culture of that paper, had been given access to another tranche of inside information about the operation of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. She found vast confirmation of what we’ve suspected for years now: the platform was…
Can Private Companies Censor If They Want To?
December 9, 2022
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Commentary It’s like clockwork. Every time we get a new batch of proof that Big Tech companies have been censoring information related to COVID controls, vaccines, or other controversial topics, someone pops up with the same argument. They say these are private companies and they can do whatever they want. They aren’t violating the First…
Can Reaganism Make a Return?
Commentary People tell me all the time: stop talking about Ronald Reagan. No one remembers that stuff. It’s a bit like feeling nostalgic for Calvin Coolidge. We have to move on with new messaging and new themes. I get the point but actually the best lessons for the way forward today are readily available via…
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