The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees
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In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not... Read more.
The Complicity of Compliance
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Agents are individuals. Only individuals make moral choices. You are one. Agendas are products of the agency of individuals other than you. For that reason, to choose... Read more.
The Ideological Bullying of Students Must Stop
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Although this bullying does not seem to have undermined young people’s basic moral instincts for fairness (without exception, they are against males competing... Read more.
“Far-Right” – The N-word of Politics
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When the facts are not with them, they have few options other than resorting to ad hominem attacks – and no such attack better fits the false inference of ill-intended... Read more.
Fact-Check This, Facebook
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The censorious warnings that are now slapped over posts that contain my original article, How the “Unvaccinated” Got It Right would seem to imply that Facebook... Read more.
How the “Unvaccinated” Got It Right
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The continued insistence on rolling out the “vaccine” to the entire population when the data revealed that those with no comorbidities were at low risk of severe... Read more.
The Shift from Personal to Positional Morality
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Moral courage is risky: it has a price, which is why it is called courage. As Aristotle famously declared, "Courage is the first virtue because it makes all other... Read more.
Do You Really Have Nothing to Hide?
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My government, which exists to protect me, arbitrarily removes rights and privileges from people based on false information that it generates. Sometimes they do... Read more.
Ideological Possession Is the Real Pandemic
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Although pandemics of ideological possession can be fatal to entire societies, the disease provides immediate benefits to each afflicted individual, such as intellectual... Read more.
Is China Preparing for War?
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The long-run power disparity between Taiwan and China is so great that Taiwan simply has no realistic prospect of defending itself against a patient and determined... Read more.
The “Limited Information” Claim Damns Them
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The most basic duty of policy-makers is the honest consideration of all reasonably available information that bears on the consequences of their actions – and... Read more.
Service and Restraint: Lost Principles of Governance
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The Queen acted always with great restraint, and never upon others in a way unconsented to, whatever her own views were. Modern politics, driven by the Administrative... Read more.