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How Public Opinion Ended COVID, and Started the Next Thing

How Public Opinion Ended COVID, and Started the Next Thing

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

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Silly Children’s Climate Case Thrown Out

Silly Children’s Climate Case Thrown Out

Australia has just had a rare outbreak of common sense from the courts. The latest, spurious attempt at vexatious watermelon lawfare — using children as its sock-puppets, as usual — has been dismissed. Once again, the leftist white-anting of Victoria’s legal system is being exposed. The Federal Environment Minister

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Fish Don’t Know They Are Wet

J. Budziszewski mercatornet.com Dr J Budziszewski is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, where he also teaches courses in the law school and the religious studies department.  He specializes in political philosophy, ethical philosophy, legal philosophy, and the interaction of religion with philosophy.

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Those Who Chose Shaming over Science

Those Who Chose Shaming over Science

Gabrielle Bauer brownstone.org Gabrielle divides her time between writing books, articles, and clinical materials for health professionals. She has received six national awards for her health journalism. She has written two books—Tokyo, My Everest, co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Prize, and Waltzing The Tango, finalist in

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MIQ No Longer Makes Sense

MIQ No Longer Makes Sense

The Government’s move to bring forward the reopening date to international tourists is overdue but welcome news, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop and Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay say. “It’s pretty simple – the risk isn’t at the border anymore and allowing fully-vaccinated travellers to

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Just Make a Decision, Prime Minister

Just Make a Decision, Prime Minister

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister is holding on to Covid-19 longer than the saga of whether Ross and Rachel were on a break. We know Jacinda Ardern loves standing at the podium and making announcements. We know she needs Covid-19 to keep voters in a

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Trans Activists vs J.K. Rowling

Rachael Wong mercatornet.com Rachael Wong is the CEO of Women’s Forum Australia and an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has a particular interest in the crossover between law, ethics, health care, human rights and women’s issues. In

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Wordle of the Day

Wordle of the Day

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Tools of Diplomacy

Tools of Diplomacy

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Churches Take On the Govt in Court

familyfirst.org.nz Last month Police and Defence Force personnel won a case against the Covid-19 vaccination mandate on religious grounds and the right to refuse medical treatment. Now it’s the turn of churches to challenge the Government’s harsh restrictions in the courts. 15 applicants (on behalf

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Not Good Enough, Mr Seymour

Not Good Enough, Mr Seymour

Capitalist Every week, as most of you are undoubtedly aware, the ACT party emails a newsletter called Free Press to numerous people. The one which sailed into my email inbox yesterday was intriguing for a couple of reasons. First, there was no mention of the widespread criticism of David Seymour

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Act in Haste Repent at Leisure

Matthew Hall Allan Brent Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Dr Matthew Hall is a Senior Researcher at the Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) and a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Allan graduated from the University of Otago with Law and

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COVID Response Has Always Followed the Science

COVID Response Has Always Followed the Science

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s Covid-19 response has always followed the science – political science. Three days after a TVNZ poll found 75 per cent of voters believed we should open the borders to negative tested travellers immediately, Labour has brought its reopening date for visitors forward by

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Terry Dunleavy: a Man on a Mission

Terry Dunleavy: a Man on a Mission

Dear Reader BFD columnist Terry Dunleavy passed away this week. The article that he had planned to write for today was going to tell us “why Luxon’s speech was NOT ‘State of the Nation’ but was welcome as reaffirmation of the State of the National Party”. In the years

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Bold Option for Public Transport

Craig Lord Being strongly against the Dominion Road Light Rail proposal, Mayoral candidate Craig Lord wants the overpriced and nonsensical plan to be thrown in the bin and for the decision makers to consider other options – such as the Metrino PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) solution. “We need better options than

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When You Kick the Bread Basket of Europe We All Feel It

David Ubilava University of Sydney David Ubilava is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Sydney. His research interests are in commodity markets and price analysis. Russia and Ukraine between them account for almost a quarter of the world’s wheat exports. Russia and Ukraine are also big

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