National Review- Quillette
- Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill April 23, 2024Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.Toadworrier
- More People, More Prosperity: The Simon Abundance Index April 22, 2024The Simon Abundance Index 2024 finds Earth’s resources 509% more plentiful than in 1980.Marian L. Tupy
- Erdogan’s Hypocrisy April 22, 2024While routinely declaring that Israel’s behaviour toward Hamas is genocidal, Erdogan has consistently denied the real genocides carried out by Turkey.Benny Morris
- Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill April 23, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- One Green Jacket, Etc. April 23, 2024Reader mail on Condoleezza Rice, Gabrielle Starr, and more.
- ‘Confederate Heritage Month,’ &c. April 23, 2024On the Civil War, Irving Berlin, Norman Podhoretz, Hugh Grant, Liz Cheney, Pete Fairbanks, and more.
- Shouts & Murmurs April 22, 2024On a music podcast, beginning with James P. Johnson and his ‘Carolina Shout.’
- One Green Jacket, Etc. April 23, 2024
Tag Archives: health care
Why is there a Shortage of Medical Equipment to Fight COVID-19?
Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago was once asked what government’s mainly produces. “Lines” he replied. So here we are in March 2020 with the economy screeching to a halt and citizens staying in … Continue reading
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The Narrative
One of the more disheartening developments in what we laughingly call public debate has been the extraordinary emphasis placed on “the narrative”. The whole point of “the narrative” is issue framing. Instead of facts like who, what, where, why and … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Corona Virus, Covid-19, emergency, health care, narrative, politics, President Trump, Reason Magazine, virus
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The Food Police
John Stossel video on the food police. JFB