Catherine Salgado Catherine Salgado is a Staff Writer with Media Research Center’s NewsBusters’ Free Speech America. She also has a column, Washington’s Bayonette, on the Rogue Review and her own SubStack newsletter, Pro Deo et Libertate. Catherine previously wrote for The National Pulse and is a graduate of
Is anyone really gullible enough to believe them when they blatherskite about “misinformation”? Because, for all the pontificating of the government, its bureaucratic masters, and its legacy media lickspittles, it’s beyond obvious that the worst purveyors of actual misinformation is them. This isn’t just conspiracy theory gibbering. We
Ben Terangi Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee. mercatornet.com “We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.” So said Jen Psaki, then-White House press secretary, in July 2021. They were words that would return to haunt the Biden administration and its sprawling network of
Rav Arora Rav Arora is an independent journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. brownstone.org One’s commitment to the foundational, noble ideals of Western, liberal society is most revealingly tested in times of emergency and mortal danger. Core principles such as individualism, bodily autonomy, tolerance, pluralism, and informed consent are
Bruce Pardy Bruce Pardy is Executive Director of Rights Probe and Professor of Law at Queen’s University. brownstone.org Dr Kulvinder Kaur Gill is a pediatric allergist in Toronto. She condemned Covid rules as irrational, political, harmful, and inconsistent with scientific data. In the eyes of the College of
The defeat of the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, if nothing else, showed just what a grassroots, low-budget campaign can achieve against the assembled might of the elite. The Yes campaign had the backing of the government, most of the minor parties, and even prominent members of the opposition. Every single state
The legacy media may have clutched their pearls and shrieked when Donald Trump called them “the enemy of the people”, but a great many of the people agreed with him. And why wouldn’t they? Time and again, especially in recent years, the media have taken the side of the
Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow and co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary non-profit, and a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. brownstone.org
T. K. Coleman T.K. Coleman is the Education Director at FEE and a co-host for The Minimalists Podcast. fee.org In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a classic children’s story by C.S. Lewis, a group of children inadvertently discover a magical realm called “Narnia” hidden
We do not need to imagine free speech as a line or as a circle. There has already been enough consideration of ‘what is free speech’, and reassessing it is a trap. The history of free speech has woven its way through centuries of societal evolution. It finds its roots
Antonio Graceffo Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China-MBA MBA, is a China economic analyst teaching economics at the American University in Mongolia. He has spent 20 years in Asia and is the author of six books about China. His writing has appeared in The Diplomat, South China Morning Post, Jamestown Foundation China
voicesforfreedom.co.nz With the final day of voting less than a week away and emotions running high it’s important to put what’s about to happen into clear perspective. Irrespective of the result of who gets in and who doesn’t, the fact remains that no one is
Imagine free speech as a label on one end of a horizontal line on a page and at the other end is censorship. X is where the two extremes meet somewhere in the middle. X marks the spot on the line where free speech ends and censorship begins: a moving
brownstone.org The ongoing war between the US Security State and the First Amendment is perhaps the most underreported development of the 21st century. Now, Missouri v Biden may bring it to the Supreme Court. Just two decades ago, the internet promised liberation as dictatorships would cave to the emerging
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com If we get it wrong, the TPA’
