Free Speech
Universities Have Blown Their Last Chance
I keep saying it, and I’m joking less and less every time I do: time to bulldoze the universities. I’m not joking any more. The rise of wokeism in tandem with a deplorable dumbing-down of standards was bad enough. Encouraging violent censorship and pandering to the thugs of
D.C Jury Slapps Mark Steyn
Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in
Musk Makes Good on His Word
Hey, did you know the Disney corporation has ‘values’? I mean, besides making movies on the cheap by shooting them near Chinese concentration camps, grooming children and churning out the most soulless corporate dreck in cinema history solely to try and cling to intellectual properties… But, no, when the Mouse
The Left’s Long March Through the Institutions
Simone Seymour Glossary * revolutionary agitators – all those (by whatever name) who would destroy what is called Western civilisation as it is known today. (Radicals, activists, extremists and seditionists might be other names for them.) * sedition – the act (often sneaky) of influencing or persuading people to disrupt or act against the
NZ Media Nudge the Lynch Mobs
The NZ mainstream media are at it again, trying to make the news instead of just reporting it as it happens. And, yet again, they’re trying to whip their lefty pals up into a slavering mob. This time their target is comedy legend, Graham Linehan. To normal people, Linehan
On the Front Lines
The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization, provides legal assistance at no charge to individuals whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated and educates the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting their freedoms. rutherford.org WASHINGTON, DC The US Supreme Court has given government officials the
The Defense Gets Its Turn in the Climate Trial of Mann v. Steyn
Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in
This Is Happening to Our Four Pillars
Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. For more content from Dr St Onge. mises.org A few days
Massive Social Change Brings Repression
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com There are two essential takeaways from the rioting in Ireland triggered by the stabbings of three children by an Algerian-born immigrant. First, the escalating violence that is a feature, not a bug, of rapid massive demographic upheaval in Western nations will be used as a pretext
I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies
Mike Fairclough Mike’s successful 20-year career in education ended when he questioned vaccine policy for schoolchildren. He has been investigated by his employer, and he has since taken his employer to the employment tribunal. brownstone.org During the Covid-19 pandemic, I was the only serving UK headteacher or school
What Kind of a World Do We Live In?
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.
When Speech Should & Shouldn’t Be Free
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Dave Pellowe is a Christian writer & commentator, founder of The Good Sauce, convener of the annual Australian Church And State Summit and host of Good Sauce’s weekly The Church And State Show, also syndicated on ADH TV. Since 2016 Dave has undertaken the mission
Second Arrest of Protestor Shows Concerning Pattern of Police Disregard for Free Speech
In addition to the arrest of a peaceful silent protestor on Saturday, Lucy Rogers, at a pro-Palestinian rally in Auckland, another protestor has contacted the Free Speech Union after being arrested for ‘obstruction’ after standing peacefully near the protest. There appears to be a troubling pattern of police disregard for
Consensus Is the Opposite of Science
Consensus is, as the saying goes, everyone agreeing on something that none of them really believe. Which is why consensus can too often lead to appallingly bad decision-making. It was the consensus of the Bush cabinet, for instance, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that the violent
Will This End the Internet Age?
Mark Angelides libertynation.com The Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules […] that ban internet providers from discrimination in service coverage based on income level, race, and other protected classes. However, the November 15 decision is merely the opening salvo in a three-pronged attack on digital freedoms pushed by lawmakers,