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Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson

Media and CultureProperty Rights

Blog07/30/2022

The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.

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How Much Did the US Government Pressure Twitter to Ban Alex Berenson?

Media and Culture

Blog07/11/2022

The American people deserve to know who is trying to shut them up … and why.

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Is Google’s LaMDA Woke? Its Software Engineers Sure Are

AntipoliticsMedia and Culture

Blog06/22/2022

One of Google's latest projects has been the development of LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator. Alas, Google has created another "woke" monster.

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Juneteenth and Secular Holidays as Tools of the Regime

Media and CultureU.S. HistoryWorld History

Blog06/20/2022

Juneteenth is an example of a fiat holiday, imposed upon the nation by an imperial city to promote a specific cultural agenda.

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Why Social Issues Dominate

Decentralization and SecessionMedia and CulturePolitical Theory

Blog05/04/2022

Social issues, from abortion to critical race theory to teaching gender identity in elementary schools, dominate our politics and media.

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The Wrong Elites

Media and CulturePhilosophyProgressivismStrategyPolitical Theory

Blog04/06/2022

Russian oligarchs, American pols, and state-connected billionaires are all cut from the same cloth: they didn't earn, or fully earn, their wealth and position in society. We must withdraw our sanction of these people.

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Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game

Cronyism and CorporatismMedia and Culture

Blog02/10/2022

The rise of woke capitalism cannot be sufficiently explained in terms of placating coastal leftists, ingratiating left-liberal legislators, or avoiding the wrath of activists.

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Kyle Rittenhouse and the Evil of Generalized Justice

LawMedia and CulturePhilosophyProperty RightsPrivate Property

Blog11/16/2021

Will guilt or innocence in criminal trials increasingly hinge on broader desirable social justice outcomes?

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How the "Respectable" Media Serves the Political Elite

Media and CultureU.S. History

Blog09/30/2021

"American media are divided into “respectable” and “non-respectable” media. Respectable media, which are the only ones that are read by the American political elite, and presumably are all that filters down to European readers, are completely biased in favor of social democracy." — Murray...

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Social Justice and the Emergence of Covid Tyranny

Media and CulturePhilosophy

Blog09/16/2021

The covid regime has extended and deepened the epistemic crisis inaugurated by postmodernism and practical postmodernism. Science has devolved into a series of non sequiturs backed by force. Science has become postmodern.

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