Information Satire Klouse (the K is silent) Swab, the boss of the World Ectoparasitic Floor’em, sat at his desk and frowned fearsomely. This was not unusual; in fact, it was his normal expression. However, the more he thought about his main duty for that day, the more emphatic his
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. Hate speech is a Thing. People do incite others to violence and they do vilify their enemies. In India, hate speech by prominent Hindu figures against Muslims is vicious and unrelenting, notwithstanding laws that ban it. This week a
For the past decade and more, we’ve been regularly treated to gushing commentary about China’s “economic miracle”. But, every time I’ve heard some economist babbling about “X% growth”, my first thought has been: That’s if you believe the Chinese Communist Party. The first thing anyone must
Outspoken psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is a man of principle living in a world where morality is no longer fashionable – if it ever was. Peterson disagrees with the direction academia has taken the social sciences. He recognises that if he does not train his university students, undergraduates and graduates
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
Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington is an essayist and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) who specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. Events in recent days seem to suggest that the managers of the Covid narrative are attempting to effect a
Patrick Carroll Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Jordan Peterson has become an increasingly outspoken critic of COVID lockdowns and mandates in recent weeks, using his large platform on Twitter to push
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com This isn’t going to be pretty, folks. The downfall of a death cult rarely is. There is going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth, incoherent fanatical jabbering, mass deleting of embarrassing tweets. There’s going to be a veritable tsunami of desperate rationalizing,
I have been reading the well researched and written book He Puapua. The further into the book you get the more obvious it becomes that this country is basically run out of New York. I suppose we should not be surprised for a number of reasons. The first is that
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has BA degrees in economics and political science, and an MA in political science from the University of Colorado. He was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie
Rob Slane theblogmire.com We in Western societies naively imagine we would never descend into Totalitarianism, because such systems are unmistakably evil and we are undeniably good. Not only would we immediately recognise it, but our moral goodness and inestimable courage would see to it that we stopped it before
January 16th, 2022. News of the Tsunami hitting Tonga after the volcanic explosion is just reaching the UK. I sincerely hope that the nation and people can recover and the death toll (if any) is low. By raising the following issues, I am not being unsympathetic, but being 12,000
Pioneering comic book artist Will Eisner satirised the 60s underground comix movement with a drawing portraying the hippies as brutish hypocrites. One particularly neanderthal fellow asks, “I just had a horrible thought: what if we are the Establishment?” Today’s Marxist left already know the answer to that one, though
In his books Silent Invasion: China’s influence in Australia and Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World (co-written with Mareike Ohlberg, Australian academic Clive Hamilton exposes, “the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy”
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Professor Ehud Qimron is head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv
righttolife.org.uk Belgium has been criticised for its radical euthanasia law during a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. The UNHCR is undergoing a “Universal Periodic Review”, in which member states’ human rights records are scrutinised and they may be called to consider
