Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” W. B. Yeats classic poem could hardly have summarised the behaviour of Australia’s politicians during the covid pandemic. The worst — “Dictator Dan” Andrews, Mark “Sneakers” McGowan, and Annastacia “Pluckachook” Palaszczuk — have seized the dire opportunities of
“Academic freedom” is a funny old thing. Like Churchill’s characterisation of free speech, “Some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage”. Case in point: Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy. These
Robert W Malone MD, MS rwmalonemd.substack.com I actually do have a personal life. In fact, my wife of 42 years and I are actually pretty private. Sharing personal history is not something I do every day. However, as many of you know – I was vaccinated with Moderna twice
Balding multimillionaire leftist Peter FitzSimons, who is as much a historian as the Fifty Shades books are great literature, recently had quite the dummy-spit over Australia’s Freedom protesters adopting the Eureka flag. With his characteristic grasp of historical fact, FitzSimons blustered that the protesters “know nothing of Eureka”. The
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Ananish Chaudhuri ananishchaudhuri.com Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19. Among the many foibles of human nature exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of contemporary progressivism.
Dear Editor, Season’s Greetings and thanks to all BFD staff for sterling work building up the site in tremendously difficult circumstances during 2021. On the 16th of December, fed up with our New Zealand Ministers of Parliament’s inability or unwillingness to confront Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s repeated
Guy Hatchard PhD Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and certification company. He is an advocate of natural preventive approaches to health. D-Day for vaccinating 5-11-year-olds is upon us. If as a parent (or a politician) you do a google search
There is a line in the Chernobyl film that accurately portrays the situation that we find ourselves in today: “When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to
Joyce Kamen rescue.substack.com Joyce Kamen is the VP of public information at the Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net). She is an Emmy award-winning writer, publicist, journalist, columnist, and producer of documentary films. Information Opinion Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing
I’ve known Guy Hatchard for several years through mutual campaigning to prevent natural products from being captured by Big Pharma. I’ve read his book DNA, which explains how DNA listens to our food – yes, it does! I’ve got to know him even better over the last year.
Richard Hume Don’t you love it when they advertise getting vaccinated in a place that you can only access if you have already been vaccinated? This billboard is up in my gym, a place you can only go in to if you have a vaccine pass. While I am
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. Since 2018, Kurt has been the Research and Features Editor at the Canberra Declaration. He is also a freelance writer, and a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia, MercatorNet, Caldron
The ridiculous, unedifying Novak Djokovic saga continues to embarrass Australia. Not since Lindy Chamberlain, perhaps, or Cardinal Pell, has the media had such a field day whipping up a firestorm of hate. Not since Egon Kisch in 1934 has a government made such a ludicrous ass out of itself in
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Professor Ehud Qimron is head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv
