The Live Free or Die State Points the Way to Low Taxes and Freedom
Once again, in the 2021 Cato Institute rankings of personal and economic freedom, Freedom in the 50 States, New Hampshire...
Barry Brownstein
Are We Near the End of the Road to Serfdom? Part 2
If you have a rose-colored belief in the certainty of the progress of humanity, The Road to Serfdom is an...
Are We Near the End of the Road to Serfdom? Part 1
Recently I was drawn to reread Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Passages I previously overlooked leaped from the pages...
How Hayek Can Transform Our Ingratitude into Gratitude
“Some Americans,” Thomas Sowell wrote, “will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun...
Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies
The searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written....
Resisting Tyranny Depends on the Courage to Not Conform
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister begins his book Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, with a proposition that will be counterintuitive...
Principles, Not Coercion, Are the Source of Unity
Living in rural America requires my wife and I to travel several hours to make a major shopping trip. About...
Why Totalitarians Promote Hate
In Upstate New York, thirty Lewis County General Hospital health clinicians resigned rather than take the mandated Covid shot. Six...
Good Medicine Requires Second Opinions
Above a tree line on the rugged trails of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, two hikers coming down the mountain...
Why “Good” People Enable Totalitarians
In the searing Soviet-era novel Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman reveals the mindset that supports totalitarianism, sparing neither fascism nor...
Censorship Kills
Whenever I write an essay critical of expert opinion on Covid, I immediately receive indignant replies. Some assume I must...
Liberating Yourself from Faucism
The deification of Anthony Fauci is unraveling; it is time to learn a meta lesson. The issue isn’t Anthony Fauci’s...
