Category: mandates

What Can the Stanford Prison Experiment Tell Us About Life in the Pandemic Era?

Commentary Late in the summer of 1971, a young man was taken from his home in Palo Alto, California. Then another. And another. Nine in all, they were each spirited away. Eventually brought to a place with no windows and no clocks, they were stripped and they were chained. They were costumed in dress-like gowns….


Forget About Covid, They Say

Commentary Earlier this year, a phrase was trending because Bari Weiss used it on a talk show: “I’m done with Covid.” Many people cheered simply because the subject has been the source of vast oppression for billions of people for two years. There are two ways to be over Covid. One way is to do what the memo…


Maajid Nawaz: The Levers of Ideological Warfare—From Islamist Extremism to Covidian Dogma | PART 1

“I was anti-democracy. I was an Islamist revolutionary that wanted to establish a caliphate. And I was imprisoned in Egypt and sentenced to five years … because I was attempting to overthrow the Egyptian government.” A former Islamist revolutionary, Maajid Nawaz would later become a leading anti-extremism activist, founding the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam. In…


How Vaccine Fanatics Fueled Vaccine Skepticism

Commentary The development of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the few successes during a pandemic that saw major failures in public health strategy and treatments. While the vaccines can’t prevent transmission, they have reduced mortality. Before the pandemic, there was almost universal trust in vaccines, and vaccine skeptics were a small but vocal minority. With…


The Holy Covid Trinity Unravels

Commentary 1) Vaccines do next to nothing to curb Omicron transmission Remember in the good old altruistic days, vaccines were not primarily for self-protection, but for the safety of others? “Your actions have consequences for other people’s health,” was the undefeatable argument. Failing to contribute to community health and safety was a socially criminal offense. It often sowed…


LIVE at 6:30 PM ET: US Trucker Convoy Rally in Indiana

Join Roman Balmakov, host of Facts Matter, live from Indianapolis for The People’s Convoy rally. Just like the Freedom Convoy in Canada, America now has a convoy of its own. A group of truckers formed The People’s Convoy and left California to make their way to Washington, D.C. And as they’ve been moving across the…


LIVE: US Trucker Convoy Rally in Indiana

Join Roman Balmakov, host of Facts Matter, live from Indianapolis for The People’s Convoy rally. Just like the Freedom Convoy in Canada, America now has a convoy of its own. A group of truckers formed The People’s Convoy and left California to make their way to Washington, D.C. And as they’ve been moving across the…


LIVE at 6:30 PM ET: US Trucker’s Convoy Rally in Indiana

Join Roman Balmakov, host of Facts Matter, live from Indianapolis for The People’s Convoy rally. Just like the Freedom Convoy in Canada, America now has a convoy of its own. A group of truckers formed The People’s Convoy and left California to make their way to Washington, D.C. And as they’ve been moving across the…


Mardi Gras Saves the World

Commentary Reports from Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1, 2022, are that lockdowns and mandates are done. It was madness on the streets, more than ever. Forget “social distancing” restrictions. This was nothing but mayhem on steroids… or something much stronger. Anthony Fauci would not approve. As for the vaccine passports formally in effect…


Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?

Commentary The Saturday Night Live skit on Covid policy is a welcome relief, a cultural sign that rationality has started to return. Yes, the segment is truly hilarious. And it reveals so much about the present moment in which even highly politicized elites are realizing that the dissidents in the Covid wars had it right…