The Return of Carl Schmitt and His Scheme for Regime Longevity
The message and optics of Joe Biden’s address from September 1, 2022, were startling in our supposedly enlightened times. In…
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.…