The Police State

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Connor O'Keeffe

President Trump has threatened to use the armed forces to go after the drug cartels in Mexico. Escalating the disastrous War on Drugs by incorporating the failed strategies of the War on Terror is a terrible idea.

Jane L. Johnson

Five years ago, covid madness descended upon the ruling elites, pushing a public health totalitarianism that destroyed lives and impoverished millions of Americans. And the ruling classes still are lying about what they did.

James Bovard

The Trump administration continues its assault on the First Amendment and the rights of dissenters. The latest casualty is a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University who was arrested by US authorities because she wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper critical of Israel.

Joseph D. Terwilliger

If Ivy League protesters love anything more than performative activism, it’s free money, especially when it comes from people they claim to hate.

James Bovard

Five years ago, the spread of the Covid-19 virus gave politicians the excuse to go full totalitarian. Their fear-based campaign consisted of authoritarian measures that were based on lies and half-truths.

Pedro Saltini

The implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies isn‘t just about money. It also is about personal freedom and how CBDCs give the government enormous powers over individuals.

Wanjiru Njoya

The Southern Reconstruction, while portrayed by progressives as virtuous northerners trying to rebuild the South, was actually an attempt to use state power to direct social and economic life there. 

Lipton Matthews

Before leaving office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. Like other dissenters that came afterward, Garvey was hounded by the FBI. He remains a complex character even in death.

James Bovard

There is truth, and then there is government truth. Unfortunately, today‘s ruling class wants us to believe that government (or at least government run by elites) is the source of truth, and not to believe our lying eyes.

Joshua Mawhorter

John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to destroy monsters, the regime also creates and nourishes them.