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The Zapping of America

Written by Arthur Firstenberg

Paul Brodeur, a former staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, died on August 2, 2023. He was the author of the pioneering book, The Zapping of America, which he published in 1977

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Crony Capitalism and Vaccine Mandates

Written by John Leake

As I have remarked in other posts, a bizarre and distressing feature of our times has been the abandonment of the Classical Liberal tradition of carefully defining and limiting the power of the state

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How Shrinks Can Make Money Exploiting Climate Anxiety

Written by Matthew Lau

The great diversity of ways to make money in the climate industry is illustrated by, among many other things, the existence of something called the Climate Psychology Certificate program, which I learned about from a letter the program’s leaders wrote the Wall Street Journal responding to a column by Alyssia Finley on how climate change obsession has become a mental disorder

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