David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. The acquisition of Twitter by the world’s wealthiest individual, Elon Musk, will almost certainly have far-reaching consequences for the way the global public sphere functions, since
Michael Tracey brownstone.org Michael Tracey is a roving journalist who posts at Substack. It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever tried to explain what “Twitter” is to people, they’d respond with something like, “So
The ‘Hood www.thehoodnz.com Legal action requesting a judicial review of the government’s decision to approve and roll out the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5-11, is still active in the Wellington High Court. Filed in January 2022 by eight concerned parents and The ‘Hood, the initial
Matt Judd Information Opinion I am becoming increasingly concerned about what I see here and worldwide. Have you also felt uneasy? I get the feeling in my waters that life has changed and may never return to what we knew just three short years ago. Suppose that we have enemies
Homer This week Labour announced that legal mask exemptions are on their way. But we already have legal mask exemptions, so why are new legal mask exemptions required? Labour claim they are doing this to protect those with genuine mask exemptions from having to disclose their personal information. However, that
Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan Lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. A six-minute video on the lockdown in Shanghai titled “Voices of April” went viral and sparked a rare showing of large-scale online protests after the Chinese censor handed down a
Eric Heinze Queen Mary University of London Eric Heinze (Paris, Maîtrise; Harvard, JD; Leiden, PhD) is Professor of Law & Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. Elon Musk is the planet’s number one billionaire. If anyone can turn cyberspace into a heaven – or hell – of free speech “absolutism”
Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Elon Musk sealed the deal. On Monday, Twitter accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy the company and take it private. Musk is
John Hawkins Michael James Walsh University of Canberra John Hawkins has a PhD in political science and Masters degrees in Economics and Applied Finance. I have headed the economics division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and been a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank for International
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Warning Long Read. 1780 words. It’s been obvious to all but the most panicked and fearful that the foolishness of the last couple of years has worn itself out. Even apologists for the Labour Government’s authoritarian actions earlier in the shamdemic are critiquing
J.R. Bruning brownstone.org J.R. Bruning is a consultant sociologist (B.Bus.Agribusiness; MA Sociology) based in New Zealand. Her work explores governance cultures, policy and the production of scientific and technical knowledge. Warning Long read. 1813 words. We expect that knowledge produced and applied in a health
Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance rather than just treating the symptoms. Hi Gary, The question is: How do we reinforce this truth in an atmosphere of authoritarianism, fear, media capture, and politicised
Joe Wang brownstone.org Joe Wang, Ph.D., was a lead scientist for Sanofi Pasteur’s SARS vaccine project in 2003. He is now the president of New Tang Dynasty TV (Canada), a media partner of The Epoch Times. Warning Long read. 1816 words. For the past 20 years, medical
Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American When asked about the best way to fight monopolies in his documentary series Free to Choose, Milton Friedman had a firm answer:
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. A new “anti-capitalist” cafe is opening in Toronto, hoping to attract customers who share the owner’s radical leftist values. Officially
