Cold War Nostalgia Explained
The death of Mikhail Gorbachev this week unleashed a wave of nostalgia for simpler and better times. That’s odd, isn’t…
US Life Expectancy Down Three Years in Two Years
Jared Kushner had not yet read the news most likely. He was just telling an interviewer that he is working…
Social Distancing Was Supposed to Be Forever
By April 2020, two months into the lockdowns, eminent Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben had put his finger on a point…
Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight!
The legend is that patents are a just reward for new inventions. The reality is that they are government grants…
Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown
The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in…
How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?
The 1998 movie Enemy of the State starring Gene Hackman and Will Smith seemed like fiction at the time. Why…
How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It
Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power…
The CDC Failed, So Spin It Off and Make It More Powerful?
The failure of the CDC to manage Covid-19 was baked in from the first moments of its response. A government…
A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years.…
Did Lockdowns Turn Americans Into Lazy Bums?
It looks as if we can add another line to the long list of lockdown harms. Sloth. This explains so…
Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
The FBI has raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida and opened a private safe, hanging around for hours looking for…
Just How Healthy Are These Labor Markets?
The news of the falling unemployment and the rise in total payrolls in July 2022 came as a welcome relief…
Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO
Many of us with a libertarian frame of mind presume as a matter of theory that the interests of business…
The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression
If you were on vacation last week, good for you. You missed one of Congress’s greatest-ever scams. They just approved…
The Day Anthony Fauci Wrecked American Freedom
Fears of a virus from China had been rising for two months in the spring of 2020. The White House…
Dictatorship Chic
In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, dictatorship is the end…
Mozart, Mediocrity, and the Administrative State
The 1984 movie Amadeus is a great achievement in its genre because it actually puts the creative process of the…
Articles of Inquiry: The Role of Media
The media, both traditional and social media, had an outsized role during the pandemic in pushing the US government’s Covid…
The US President Finally Gets Covid
The political hierarchy of infectious disease has finally come full circle. Biden got Covid. Covid pandemic policies have always been…
The 1968-69 “Hong Kong Flu” Pandemic Revisited
It was a very bad year for the flu. The pathogen came in two large waves. This is only obvious…
The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now
On February 27, 2020, weeks before full disease panic hit the US, the New York Times podcast started preparing the…
Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit
The December 2020 resignation of Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, revealed predictable hypocrisy. Like so…
Twelve Questions on Economic Issues for the Next Congress
We are now experiencing an economic crisis that could get worse. Financials are in bear markets. Inflation is roaring. The…
Musk Declines to Save Twitter from Itself
The question is finally settled: Elon Musk has declined to buy Twitter. His initial offer of $44 billion was contingent…
The Crash and Burn of Credentialism
The word credentials is derived from Latin for “believe” as in “Credo in unum deum” meaning “I believe in one…
The Mighty Gorsuch vs. the Administrative State: Quotes from West Virginia vs. EPA
The power of the administrative state to destroy liberty and property – to blast through legislation, science, and judicial oversight…
Poke and Sniff: A Lesson from 1906
In 1906, Upton Sinclair came out with his book The Jungle, and it shocked the nation by documenting the horror…
What If People Actually Controlled the Government?
Imagine, if you will, the following system. Government is managed by elected representatives who are in turn elected by the…
The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F
Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on…
The Lockdown Advocacy of Devi Sridhar
The Covid era gave rise not only to popular mania but also to astonishing intellectual pretension. The experts were everywhere.…