Topic: Authoritarianism

Galileo versus the CDC

– September 12, 2021

“You don’t help scientists learn the truth by shielding them from counterarguments – you largely destroy the most important source of that vital pressure to keep searching for the truth.” ~ Chris Bateman

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

A Subtle Catastrophe

– September 11, 2021

“This is not what winning looks like. This looks like yet another President declaring his way to the policy outcomes he wants by executive order, Covid style.” ~ James R. Harrigan

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

The Paradox of Turnkey Totalitarianism

– September 10, 2021

“The upshot of Turnkey Totalitarianism is deeply problematic, even though there are evil geniuses among the citizenry. After all, wasn’t it very likely a small group of government technocrats who unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic?” ~ Max Borders

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”

– September 9, 2021

“Even taken on their own merits, these prohibitions amount to nothing more than a coin flip against each and every person turned away. Considered in full, they are cruel, discriminatory, and ultimately self-defeating.” ~ Jon Sanders

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

The Perennial Panacea of Universal National Service: North Korea Shows the Way

– September 9, 2021

“Compassion cannot be coerced. To have moral meaning, service must be voluntary. It is vital that Americans keep the ‘mandatory’ and ‘national’ out of service. ~ Doug Bandow

Authoritarianism, Environmentalism, Government

More Wetlands Purgatory for American Landowners

– September 3, 2021

“Nobody in Washington has cared enough to slay the hydra. Wetlands policy vivifies how the Fifth Amendment’s proviso that property cannot be taken ‘without due process of law’ is void when bureaucrats are unleashed.” ~ James Bovard

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Science

98% Propaganda

– September 2, 2021

“Authoritarianism indoctrinates its votaries and buffaloes others into a false and oversimplified worldview, in which the only important factor is vaccination. But the causes of hospitalization and death are multifarious.” ~ Daniel B. Klein

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

The Totalitarian Roots of Vaccine Mandates

– September 2, 2021

“The end to the pandemic requires not that we follow the collectivists but that we are free to consider different perspectives and discover in the course of an uncoerced social process what really works.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Science

Increasing Evidence that Lockdowns and Social Distancing are Harming Kids

– September 1, 2021

“It is not too late to stop such destructive policies going forward or to ensure that we learn from this disastrous episode in public health history.” ~ Zachary Yost

Art and Culture, Authoritarianism, Government

Liberalism’s Enemies

– August 31, 2021

“If we’re going to have to pick a team soon, then, we should no longer be asking whether that team is left or right. We should be asking whether that team is liberal or illiberal.” ~ Max Borders

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

On Track for Calamitous Policy Outcomes

– August 31, 2021

“I fear that humanity’s response to Covid has put us on a terrible track, one destined to deposit us all in a horrific place.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Science

COVID-19 Mandates Will Not Work for the Delta Variant

– August 28, 2021

“There is absolutely no good reason to re-enter lockdowns and school closures or masking in response to the Delta variant. We find no evidence that this variant warrants masks in children.” ~ AIER Contributing Authors