Volume 77, no. 7 July 2021 More than 100 residents were sleeping comfortably in their $600,000 apartments in the 12-story Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, when the building suddenly collapsed, burying the residents in the rubble. There had been indications of problems for a time—such as exposed rebar in concrete columns, or a balcony that […]
Volume 77, no. 6 June 2021 The best and perhaps only government oversight mechanism available to the American people—the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)—has yielded more than 3,000 emails sent and received by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) for decades. Dr. Fauci is the highest […]
Volume 77, no. 5 May 2021 “Zero” is a politically correct preoccupation. Zero population growth—which will turn negative as we approach the demographic cliff. “Net zero” CO2 emissions—which will spell “negawatts” and serious energy poverty if we try to replace affordable, reliable fuels with wind and solar. Zero disparities—even at the cost of eliminating advanced […]
Volume 77, no. 4 April 2021 The desire of certain human beings to conquer the world and to mold other humans to conform to their will began at the dawn of history. In Aristotle’s time, the worst possible form of government was “tyranny”—defined as the rule of one person, or of a small group of […]
Volume 77, no. 3 March 2021 The wokeness mob’s attempt to cancel six popular children’s books by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) might push us toward a tipping point and an awakening. The motive is ostensibly to wipe out a virus of racism lurking in a few cartoons. These conceivably might be micro- (or nano or […]
Volume 77, no. 2 February 2021 Once confined to academia, the concept of “wokeness” has had a meteoric rise, and is now ensconced in the White House and all “respectable” institutions. It calls on us to confront internal threats worse than foreign enemies and a pandemic virus. The Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered […]
Volume 77, no. 1 January 2021 Perhaps in a few years or decades we will have 20/20 hindsight on the unprecedented, bizarre, disastrous events of 2020. For now, we have questions. Transparency—a newly popular buzzword—is blocked at all levels of governance, particularly if it means honesty or dedication to objective truth. It is, however, being […]
Volume 76, no. 12 December 2020 EBM is proving to be eminence-based medicine, with a trail leading to piles of money for barely tested treatments and vaccines. Regulatory agencies promise not to relax standards for approval. But was there ever any doubt about the outcome as more than 600 centers geared up to administer the […]
Volume 76, no. 11 November 2020 Great “resets”—or revolutions—aim to destroy the old order and rebuild from scratch. Books have been burned, monuments torn down, streets and cities renamed. The French revolutionaries even abolished the seven-day week, renamed months, and designated 1792, when the National Convention had proclaimed France a republic, to be year 1. Stalin’s boldest […]
Volume 76, no. 10 October 2020 The worldwide depression and chaos from the response to COVID-19 might be just a dress rehearsal for the global totalitarian technocracy so long envisioned. The “climate crisis” wasn’t generating enough fear to motivate people to change their behavior drastically. It is also easier to persuade people that they could […]