Whom Do You Really Trust?
Elon Musk is clearly over the target and the Establishment is terrified.
Free Speech
Project 2025: A Plan to Fix Free Speech?
In the current arrangement, Big Tech gets to keep their quasi-monopolies and the government gets to wield the threat of antitrust to ensure compliance with censorship requests. That cozy relationship needs disrupting.
A Tale of Two Freedoms
This is an outrageous and gross constitutional overreach by police. This cannot be over-emphasised. Police do not make the laws. They must stop all activity in this space immediately and delete all the data that they have illegally collected.
At the People’s Court of New Normal Germany (Part Two)
This is about the authorities prosecuting government critics like me on fabricated charges, banning our books, and censoring our political speech. Once a government starts doing that, the protections in its constitution no longer matter.
Carpet Call: The Imperfect Gift of Freedom
There’s no doubt that the left is out to undermine our freedoms. They’re coming for our churches, our schools, our faith-based organisations, our farms, our mines, our cars and, most of all, our children.
The Cost of a Hoax
This is yet another cost of perpetuating an official narrative without evidence.
The People’s Court of New Normal Germany
This is how it works in New Normal Germany if you are a critic of the authorities and refuse to meekly accept whatever punishment they want to summarily dish out for whatever they deem to be your thoughtcrimes.
Human Rights Are Wrongs When They Transgress God’s Word
I am taking this issue seriously. How dare they tamper with the Human Rights Act?
The Coming Populist Revolt in Australia
Gary Johns Gary Johns is Chairman of Close the Gap Research Populism occurs when the masses revolt against the elites’ view of the world. Elite opinion does not often deal directly with popular opinion, that is, with the people who have to pay for elite opinion. When elites get it
Suck It Up, These Are the Rules You Wanted
Listening to independent journalist Tim Poole recently, he made a point about free speech which changed much of my previous thinking. Free speech, yes, Poole said. But only for people who actually believe in free speech. Free speech fundamentalism, advocating free speech even on behalf of people who avowedly do
During the Crisis, Free Speech Worked Brilliantly
Jeffrey Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is founder, author and president at Brownstone Institute. There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship. That is X, once known as Twitter, and owned by Elon Musk, who has preached free speech for years and sacrificed billions in advertising
Three Reasons for Free Speech
Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. We once again have Green Party leader, Chlöe Swarbrick, proudly screaming the ‘from the river to the sea…’ slogan from
Freedom, Moral Norms and the State
Jonathan Cole Jonathan Cole is an academic working in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. He is also host of The Political Animals, a podcast that explores the political ideas of the Right through intellectual biography. Are moral norms compatible with individual freedoms? The answer should be an