Commentary “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Appear weak when you…

Commentary Traumatic times in human experience are often best understood, across cultures, through the sharing of stories. I have a few personal stories from the COVID restrictions. As a mother, daughter, and human, they illustrate to me that something is deeply wrong. First, I was furious that the daycare centers, playgrounds, and local libraries were…

Commentary Forty months ago began the lockdowns that set in motion a grim trajectory of misery for Americans and the world. It was the long dark night of the soul, in the words of St. John of the Cross. It was a challenge to everyone and everything. Do you really believe in freedom and human…

Commentary Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with a different focus. Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was unexpected, especially under the guise of public health. Every essential freedom…

Commentary There are several features of the pandemic policy response that still astonish me. It does not surprise me that bureaucrats couldn’t suppress, control, much less eradicate, a respiratory virus by scrapping the Bill of Rights. What I cannot get over is all the ways that the response ended up achieving the opposite of what…

Lives were at stake, so Dr. Scott Atlas was just doing what he thought was right when he joined the White House COVID response team. Little did he know he was jumping into a viper’s pit where public health officials were willing to sacrifice American lives for political gain. But Atlas’s struggle for the truth…

Lives were at stake, so Dr. Scott Atlas was just doing what he thought was right when he joined the White House COVID response team. Little did he know he was jumping into a viper’s pit where public health officials were willing to sacrifice American lives for political gain. But Atlas’s struggle for the truth…

Lives were at stake, so Dr. Scott Atlas was just doing what he thought was right when he joined the White House COVID response team. Little did he know he was jumping into a viper’s pit where public health officials were willing to sacrifice American lives for political gain. But Atlas’s struggle for the truth…

Lives were at stake, so Dr. Scott Atlas was just doing what he thought was right when he joined the White House COVID response team. Little did he know he was jumping into a viper’s pit where public health officials were willing to sacrifice American lives for political gain. But Atlas’s struggle for the truth…

Lives were at stake, so Dr. Scott Atlas was just doing what he thought was right when he joined the White House COVID response team. Little did he know he was jumping into a viper’s pit where public health officials were willing to sacrifice American lives for political gain. But Atlas’s struggle for the truth…