Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
You know, you’ve got to hand it to “white supremacists” and “right-wing extremists”: not only are they more diverse than the average Green party meeting, they’re apparently more literate, civilised and cultured, too. According to no less an impeccably-woke source than The Daily Beast, “Young men of colour
Jeff Charles libertynation.com Socio-political correspondent at LibertyNation.com. A self-confessed news and political junkie, Jeff’s writing has been featured in NewsweekOpinion, and Red State. He hosts A Fresh Perspective podcast and has appeared as a guest on Fox News, Fox Soul and The Hill’s Rising. When he
It’s amazing how tolerant and inclusive the woke are. The Epoch Times provides an example. A school board in the Durham region of Ontario drafted a new human rights policy, and when one trustee voiced her concerns about it she was banned from attending future meetings. Trustee Linda Stone’
Veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald recently took aim at the current establishment mania over “disinformation”. Anyone, Greenwald said, “who claims to be: a ‘disinformation expert’, an ‘anti-extremist expert’, an ‘online safety expert’ is a fraud”. Greenwald probably hasn’t heard of the likes of Siouxsie Wiles, Kate Hannah or Byron Clark,
It’s been interesting watching the discussion around ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’ and ‘extremist content’ online. In fact, this is a new concept that has only recently entered the public discussion around digital technologies and social media. I think it is remarkable that our political elites consider them such a threat to
What hope is there for freedom of speech, when even members of a party supposedly founded on the ideals of classical liberalism are jumping on the censorship bandwagon? Because, strip away the attempts at emotional blackmail, that’s precisely what former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint is proposing. To an extent,
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A priest has been charged for breaching buffer zone rules by praying silently and holding a sign with the words “praying for freedom of speech” near a closed abortion clinic in Birmingham. He also faces a further charge for an “Unborn Lives Matter”
William Spruance brownstone.org William Spruance is a practicing attorney and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. The ideas expressed in the article are entirely his own and not necessarily those of his employer. War benefits Leviathan. Abstract opposition allows leaders to seize power amid the fear of the
Jess Gill fee.org Jess Gill is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. A resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, she is the host and director of Reasoned UK where she makes daily videos on British politics from a libertarian perspective. She is also
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As we settle into a new year and new leader, we optimistically look with hope to the horizon of better times ahead, yet already we are once again facing the stronghold of censorship in our lives, as the grip tightens on
Michael Keane Michael Keane is adjunct associate professor, Swinburne University, adjunct senior lecturer, Monash University and a specialist anaesthetist. Kara Thomas Kara Thomas is the secretary of the Australian Medical Professionals Society brownstone.org We genuinely urge doctors involved with medical regulation not to go down with the sinking ship
Harrison Griffiths fee.org Harrison Griffiths is Communications Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think tank in London. For the past decade, freedom of speech has been at the forefront of America’s culture war, and it should not be controversial to say that both sides are
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Further to New Zealand’s concerns about the Federation of State Medical Board’s (FSMB) overarching and unethical domination of medical care, a recent Epoch Times episode of Crossroads with Joshua Philipp discussed the issue from an American perspective. Philipp interviewed
How do you know when you’ve won an argument with a leftist? If it’s online, they block you; if it’s in the real world, they’ll stop talking to you. Probably forever. In between, there’ll be a whole of screaming about “phobia”, “racism”, “fascism” and “Nazis”
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is an American nonprofit organisation conceived in May 2021 in response to the global crisis created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The mission of the Brownstone Institute is to understand what
