Michael Lesher Remember the spotted lanternfly? Barely a year ago, this colorful winged insect was supposed to be a harbinger of national disaster. Native to China but increasingly visible in border-jumping swarms in the eastern United States, the spotted lanternfly’s activities in this country had been well known since 2014 – and until recently hadn’t provoked any …
The Religion of Masking by Gwendolyn Kull, Brownstone Institute September 14, 2023 What do burkas, tichels, yarmulkes, hijabs, kapps, fezzes, dukus, and surgical masks all have in common? Religious...
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David v. Goliath in New York by Brownstone Institute September 12, 2023 There is a battle going on for our freedoms this week. And very few Americans are...
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Michael Lesher “The first thing we do,” says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s early history play Henry VI, Part II – “let’s kill all the lawyers.” In Shakespeare’s telling, Dick the Butcher is a notorious bully – and when he calls for the murder of lawyers he’s playing a leading role in a revolt against …
The Free Speech Scare “War and censorship go together because it is wartime that allows ruling elites to declare that ideas alone are dangerous to the goal of defeating the enemy…” ~~~ “The war, however, was of domestic origin and targeted at Americans themselves…” ~~~ “The Red Scare mutated a century later to become
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The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands by Carla Peeters, Brownstone Institute July 9, 2023 The Netherlands has been chosen as a pilot area in the EU to be climate neutral with a transition in protein food and a transformation of healthcare into a telemedicine, data, and AI-driven connected system approach led
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They’re Coming to Take You Away …When the monolithic narrative that is all they have been taught lies in ruins, they will replace it not with a rational, informed alternative – for they will know of none – but with whatever satisfies the rage of a population that realizes, too late, that it has
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Michael Lesher Suppose I tell you in advance that the essay you are reading is meant to startle you. And suppose I suggest, by way of demonstration, that two people as loosely connected as the leader of the “COVID Crisis Group” and Joe Biden’s “Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Antisemitism” – both of whom …
Dignity Is Yours To Lose by Richard Kelly, Brownstone Institute March 4, 2023 On my morning walk with the dog I passed through a family gathering. The path I was on goes right along the foreshore between a carpark and the sand. From about 10 metres away I could see a father and mother, two
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The West Must Never Again Go Totalitarian by Joakim Book, Brownstone Institute January 26, 2023 The West can never again go totalitarian. We saw it happen generations ago. We fought two of humanity’s most destructive wars and faced the horror of industrial-scale extermination. Never again, said the world’s peoples in the late 1940s, and they
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