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Local Sensitivity and the Value of Decentralization: Understanding Why Tyranny Is More Common in Centralized States

February 11, 2021 by Counter Markets

By Sukhayl Niyazov In big and diverse countries, it is important that smaller units adapt their laws to the local peculiarities and specifics of the economic and public health situation. That is why Donald Trump, when announcing the plan to get America back to work, allowed for states to decide when to reopen, for a single nationwide lifting of restrictions will prove to be … [Read more...] about Local Sensitivity and the Value of Decentralization: Understanding Why Tyranny Is More Common in Centralized States

Why Most Fell for the Lockdowns, While a Few Stood for Liberty

January 1, 2021 by Counter Markets

By Dan Sanchez 2020 will be remembered for many things: COVID-19, nationwide riots, a divisive election. But the rise of pandemic lockdowns will go down as the most momentous. Never before have the day-to-day lives of so much of humanity been so radically upended. And, outside of wartime, never before has there been such a widespread and extreme rollback of human … [Read more...] about Why Most Fell for the Lockdowns, While a Few Stood for Liberty

The New Fascism

August 11, 2020 by Counter Markets

By George Gilder Up here in Maskachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills, we have a new form of fascism that might well be called “phasism” as our Governor Charlie Baker phases out our freedoms and our economic life. Banning music and theater and Tanglewood concerts and tennis tournaments and baseball games and track meets and schools and colleges, he has put his knee on the … [Read more...] about The New Fascism

Why George Orwell’s Warning on “Self-Censorship” Is More Relevant Than Ever

July 18, 2020 by Counter Markets

By Brad Polumbo Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry. The above is a quotation from … [Read more...] about Why George Orwell’s Warning on “Self-Censorship” Is More Relevant Than Ever

The Tyranny of (Alleged) Experts

April 16, 2020 by Counter Markets

By Barry Brownstein Think again if you believe draconian controls recommended by a few (but far from all) medical experts are saving many lives from COVID-19. Facts reported by mathematician Yitzhak Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University don’t support such beliefs. Professor Israel found that no matter how much or little politicians quarantined the population, “coronavirus … [Read more...] about The Tyranny of (Alleged) Experts

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