Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here
Interesting times in Myanmar As promised in my last letter, I thought we would have a bit of a change this week. There is so much going on in the UK that I would need a letter a day to do justice to it. Resignations from the health sector, no
Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for, well…nobody’s really sure what. Being (half) black and winning an election, so far as anyone can tell. The fact that Obama went on to preside over Libya becoming a failed state, the rise of ISIS and a murderous secret war-by-drone-strike
One of the hallmarks of communist regimes has been their ability to lie outrageously to people who know without doubt that they’re lying. The question is whether the recipients go along with the obvious lies or not. “To assent to obvious lies,” says Theodore Dalrymple. “Is in some small
The Morrison government is hardening its stance against China even further. Just the day after the communist nation’s deputy ambassador unleashed a diatribe against Australia at the National Press Club, the Australian PM has announced new laws to curb China’s influence in Australia. By hauling into line treacherous
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org/article A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had
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Gary Grappo fairobserver.com The August 13 announcement of normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates breaks the quarter-century standstill in Arab-Israeli relations and shows that Arab states will no longer hold their interests hostage to the long-dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. President Donald Trump made the announcement of
Gilbert Berdine, MD mises.org Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. Figure 1 illustrates the daily mortality attributed to COVID-19 in Sweden, New York, Illinois, and Texas. The figure
I’ve written about this so many times that I’m about as sick of saying it as long-suffering BFD followers are of reading, but let’s have one last try, for the slow kids in the Beehive: Lockdowns do not work. But governments don’t want to hear that.
Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
Trump Announces Peace Deal Between Israel, United Arab Emirates President Trump on Thursday announced a historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that would pave the way for full normalization of relations between the two Middle Eastern countries. To read the full article click here. Israel and
When the Wuhan pandemic was first revealed, at the beginning of 2020, many were moved to wonder if it was going to be the Chinese Communist Party’s Chernobyl moment. The Chernobyl disaster and the even more disastrous attempts at cover-up by the Soviets were so egregious that the communists
