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
In a rare partial victory for free speech and reasoned discourse, two New Zealand doctors have won their appeals against the Medical Council. Their “crime”? Daring to contradict the Podium of Truth. Two doctors who were suspended by the Medical Council over spreading Covid-19 misinformation have won their appeals against
The stoush over whether matauranga Maori should be taught in the school NCEA science syllabus — sparked by a letter to the Listener by seven emeritus professors last July who asserted that indigenous knowledge isn’t scientific — has reached a stalemate. The Royal Society Te Aparangi has extricated itself from what
The National Party has taken down a meme it posted comparing the Government to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. The meme was posted by the National Party on Facebook on Monday night and soon deleted. […] Christopher Luxon says the party ‘doesn’t condone violence’ Stuff Luxon bans a meme making
“At all times the Party is in possession of absolute truth […] Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth” — George Orwell, “1984” What is truth? That’s something that philosophers have argued over for millennia — and we’re still no further to settling it. But, apart from some
Alex Washburne brownstone.org Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market
You may remember when we revealed that The BFD and this author, in particular, had discovered that we were under constant surveillance by the ominously named Police Intelligence ‘Scanning and Targeting Team’. We have now discovered, through an Official Information Act request that the tyrant, Jacinda Ardern’s, own department,
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Whenever anyone suggests that Cancel Culture might be less than a good thing. That it might, indeed, be bullying, hateful poison which is killing Western culture, the Cancellers screech indignantly. Screeching indignantly is, of course, their default setting, but dare criticise their despicable ideology and they amp the screeching to
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New Zealand First Media The ‘Kashmir Files’ has been shown in America, Australia, India and many other locations around the world. To date the film has been viewed by over 1.1 billion people. The film is about true and real events surrounding the 1990 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in
Are the days of a free run for Big Tech in the media sphere coming to an end? Developments in a case before the US Supreme Court seem ominous for the social media giants, most particularly Facebook. In a statement on the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in Jane
In case it wasn’t clear enough already, Big Tech isn’t even bothering to pretend any more: it has never been about “hate speech”, only censorship. What I’m talking about is the ever-tightening noose of “Community Standards”. Far from “protecting” anyone from “hate speech”, the rules are clearly
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz The Government has delayed the introduction of its fraught hate speech law reforms, and there’s strong speculation they’ll remain on ice until after the next election. In fact, they may never see the light of day again. This is a win for those who
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org Free market website Issues & Insights reported that Google censored one of their articles, claiming the publication undermined the U.S. electoral process. Is merely observing reality an offense under the Biden presidency? Free market commentary website Issues & Insights reported in a blog they had
Imagine you had the freedom to choose whether or not to get vaccinated. Imagine a New Zealand where ‘Unite Against Covid’ advertising doesn’t appear on MSM, social media, billboards and buses and isn’t written or talked about either. In other words, a perfect world, perfectly neutral about what
