The CDC Intervened in Voting Protocols
In the spring of 2020, a deliberately cultivated disease fear swept across the population. Everyone was urged to do everything…
What Happened to Bitcoin?
Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before.…
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…
Is Inflation Harmless?
The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The…
Four Years Later
Has the dust settled? Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in…
The White House Makes Good on Its Antitrust Threats
On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors…
How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards.…
Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
“Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending…
In Health Care, We Are Flying Blind
In the movie Paddington, a bear moves in with a London family. The father of the house is an insurance…
The End of the End of Ideology
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time…
Life After Lockdown: Introduction
My last published book was Liberty or Lockdown, originally printed in September 2020. It was written in a mad fury…
Free Speech on Trial
In a lifetime of observing policy controversies and court cases, we’ve never witnessed anything as crucial to the future of…
A Digital Coup d’Etat
There was a time. What seemed to be unfolding was a huge intellectual error for the history books. A new…