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If Sweden Won, Why Are Swedish Birth Rates Plummeting?

If Sweden Won, Why Are Swedish Birth Rates Plummeting?

Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is the pen name of a widely-published journalist covering European affairs. brownstone.org It is chapter and verse nowadays among Covid-19 policy dissidents – or at least those who get amplified the most on X – that “Sweden won:” namely, by bucking the trend and refusing

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Belgium Feels the Vibrant Cultural Diversity Again

Belgium Feels the Vibrant Cultural Diversity Again

Get ready for another round of pearl-clutching about “Islamophobia” and “backlash”. In fact, it’s already begun — but it’s only going to get louder. Because it is, as we are all-too grimly familiar with, the default reaction of the media, politicians, and chattering classes, whenever the followers

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The Origins of the Surveillance State

The Origins of the Surveillance State

Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow and co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary non-profit, and a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and MIT’s Open Documentary

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There’s No ‘Two Sides’ to This

There’s No ‘Two Sides’ to This

The Israel-Gaza war is morally crystal-clear in a way that no conflict has been for the last eighty years. In the early 1940s, there was no moral equivalence between the Allies and the Axis. The enormities of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were so beyond the pale of

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The Distance between the MSM and the Truth

The Distance between the MSM and the Truth

Nicholas Fondacaro Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. newsbusters.org CNN’s

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How Did Hamas Do It?

How Did Hamas Do It?

One of the big questions about last week’s horrific progrom by Hamas is not why the left are so supportive of the murderers. We already knew that the left are anti-Semitic to the core. Rather, many people are asking: how? How, after all, does a motley terrorist government

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The Babies: We Must Acknowledge Their Humanity
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The Babies: We Must Acknowledge Their Humanity

In my previous article I wrote about the babies that were reported to have been killed in Israel. I included the following link to an interview with a reporter from Israel: Another victim was mentioned in the interview, that I have left off for this article. I have not been

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The Shame of the Media
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The Shame of the Media

The world’s media propagated a lie, a terrible lie, that Israel had attacked a hospital and killed hundreds in Gaza. It was deliberate and egregious disinformation on the part of a terrorist organisation that has killed thousands in their attacks against Israel. Yet it was a lie the world’

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shredder, document, paper shredder
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They Shredded Our Social Contract

Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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Enough of These Obvious Lies

Enough of These Obvious Lies

There are some excuses that just don’t wash. Most of them centre around the simple word, “but”. The infamous, “I’m not a racist, but…”, for example. For years, the “I’m not anti-Semitic, but…” excuse has become just as threadbare. Especially in the context of supporting the

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The Tightrope Israel Walks in Gaza

The Tightrope Israel Walks in Gaza

Elliot Mathias Elliot Mathias is Aish’s Chief Operating Officer for Global Activities, as well as Executive Director of Aish New York. Elliot is also the founder of Hasbara Fellowships, a program he created while studying at Aish in Jerusalem, Hasbara Fellowships grew under his leadership to become one of

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World’s Oldest Hate Goes Green

World’s Oldest Hate Goes Green

Is it just a coincidence that the Hamas flag is green? Was it a coincidence that the Nazis were the first environmental party? Forget the brown shirts and black boots, the West’s most hateful anti-Semites today are far too likely to be wearing Green. Either the poisonous green

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Harvard Chooses to Not Stand Up to Supporters of Terrorism

Harvard Chooses to Not Stand Up to Supporters of Terrorism

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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The Mask Is off the Anti-Semites
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The Mask Is off the Anti-Semites

Imagine if, when General Eisenhower released the horrifying footage of the liberation of Dachau and Auschwitz, left-wing “progressives” had marched in their thousands across the Allied nations, proclaiming their allegiance to the Reich? That’s what has happened this week. The mask is off for all to see: if

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We Need to Regain Our Human Decency

We Need to Regain Our Human Decency

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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