The Great Reset by Michael Rectenwald (2020)
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on November 7, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “The Great Reset.”
I heartily recommend you read it, and underline portions...
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Americans are ordinary people, created on the principle that...
The Iffiness in Science that makes Everything a Coin Flip
I have several fits-and-starts in my stack of stuff, all centering around scientific debates not just about how human history is written, but how human achievement is defined, going back long before history could...
HomoBureaucraticus and Self-Destruction
(photo credit: Haitian passports dumped in the ground in Brazil as they prepared to make their (organized)way to Texas.
I'm going to reprint a few lines what I mentioned only recently, but several times over...
Is this really a Pandemic?
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