Last week I modestly attempted to show that no injustice takes place when A sells B the opportunity to pitch its product to C. This is the principle behind print, television, and radio advertising, and it is no different in the era of social networks like Facebook. In...
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Pascal’s Wager for COVIDystopic Times or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Coronapocalypse and Eat Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
by Laurie Calhoun | Apr 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Being of a naturally skeptical bent, I have harbored doubts from the very beginning about the upheaval of the entire world rationalized by politicians everywhere because of a virus which kills less than 1% of the people it infects. I watched in amazement as country...
Scott Horton Testifies Before Texas House Committee
by Iris Poole | Apr 2, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
Legislation that would require Congress to declare war before the Texas National Guard would be sent into active combat status is moving through the legislative process. House Bill 2701, by State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R–Royse City), was heard on Monday before the House...
Epistocracy and the Nature of Political Knowledge
by Brice M. Vanhaelen | Apr 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
Many intellectuals and philosophers have suggested that society would be better ruled if political power was concentrated citizens according to their knowledge. For instance, Plato proposed a system of governance, called Noocracy, where decision making is in the hands...
COVID-19 Passports, Step by Step
by Adam Dick | Apr 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you...
‘Private Companies’ Will Do The States Bidding – ‘Vaccine Passports’ Edition
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 31, 2021 | Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
I’ve pretty much resigned myself to the fact that until the day I shuffle off this mortal coil I’m going to be subjected to the “it’s a private company” argument from “libertarians.” They’ve spread this asinine slogan so far and wide that they have progressives and...
How Ambassador Robert Ford Attempted to Whitewash the CIA’s Dirty War on Syria
by William Van Wagenen | Mar 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a recent essay for Newlines Magazine, former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford discussed the ways in which the so-called Syrian revolution went wrong. He does so by recounting his interactions with two prominent Syrian opposition leaders, political activist and...
Iran Rejects Nuclear Deal Alternative; Demands Full Return
by Dave DeCamp | Mar 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A report from Politico on Monday said the Biden administration was ready to offer a proposal to Iran that would give some sanctions relief in exchange for Tehran halting some activity of its civilian nuclear program, such as stopping enriching uranium at 20 percent....