Bretigne Shaffer

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The Implosion of the Virus Hysteria Smells a Lot like 1989

08/13/2020 Bretigne Shaffer

Yes, there are still the people buying into the fear, ratting out their neighbors, etc. But I'm seeing a lot more of the opposite: people recognizing who the enemy is here, and that it is not their neighbors.

The Implosion of the Virus Hysteria Smells a Lot like 1989

08/05/2020 Power & Market Bretigne Shaffer

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The weeks-long coronavirus lockdown is being exposed as, at best, a wild overreaction. Americans are starting to protest the destruction of...

Bretigne Shaffer on California’s Mandatory Vaccinations

11/09/2019 Robert P. Murphy Bretigne Shaffer

Bob Murphy and longtime libertarian journalist Bretigne Shaffer discuss the vaccinations now enforced for school children in California, and the parents who are protesting the policy.

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