Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) 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
Anne M. Cronin Professor of Cultural Sociology Lancaster University More than 100 years ago, sociologist Georg Simmel wrote that secrecy is a core part of all human relationships. The ratio of secrecy to openness in a society, he argued, can tell us much about that society. I explore this in
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
How best to deal with mainstream media Hatchet jobs? Recently a Sunday Times journalist interviewed me as his editor told him to feature me in an article about ‘Rise of the conspiracy theorists’ What he texted me the day before the article ran is extraordinary ? pic.twitter.com/mzgsXFX1DJ — Dr
Kath Murray Research Fellow in Criminology The University of Edinburgh The decision to place double rapist Isla Bryson in the segregation unit at Scotland’s Cornton Vale women’s prison, ahead of sentencing, has sparked a political crisis that looks unlikely to abate soon. Following a backlash, Scotland’s first
February 6th 2023. On the Politics Live BBC TV programme at lunchtime today, Emily Thornberry Labour’s shadow attorney general let slip a comment that shocked me. She either meant something different or didn’t realise what she was saying. She said that the same corporate tax rate should apply
Molly Kingsley brownstone.org Molly Kingsley is a co-founder at UsForThem, the parent campaign group formed in May 2020 to advocate against school closures. They have since been joined by tens of thousands of parents, grandparents and professionals across the UK and beyond, advocating for children to be prioritized in
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
Guy Hatchard PhD GLOBE.GLOBAL. HatchardReport.com The democratic Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has announced that hospitals and care facilities will not be allowed to employ unvaccinated staff because according to her they can transmit Covid to others (presumably to the virtuously vaccinated). A similar rule has been
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Scholar and 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a psychiatrist working with the Unity Project. He is a former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, where he was the director of Medical Ethics. First, by way of
January 30th 2023. Well, the new year is well underway and there is an undefinable feeling that something is wrong with the UK. There is a feeling of malaise and an overriding sense of general unhappiness sitting like a damp blanket across the psyche of the nation. It is almost
Tom Jefferson Tom Jefferson is a Senior Associate Tutor at the University of Oxford, a former researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Centre and a former scientific coordinator for the production of HTA reports on non-pharmaceuticals for Agenas, the Italian National Agency for Regional Healthcare. Here is his website. Carl Heneghan
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Staff Writer/Researcher newsbusters.org 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
January 19th 2023. Having seen the reports of Jacinda Ardern’s resignation in the UK media I thought it would be useful to share a few comments from the UK MSM. To quote Robbie Burns “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!
In case you hadn’t got the message yet, the left-elite despise you. Deplorable. They certainly don’t trust you: not to raise your children “correctly”, make the “right” medical choices, or even to vote the way they want. And they absolutely don’t trust your judgement or commonsense in
January 14th 2023. A Happy New Year from the frozen North. After a welcome break over the holidays it is back to what currently passes as normal in the UK. We are greeted back with the nurses, ambulance drivers and NHS workers continuing their industrial action. The railways are getting
