Commentary
Being on the administrative/editorial side of Brownstone has been a serious education in information systems. I don’t mean on a technical level. I mean on a social level. I had no idea just how many people there are who simply are not in a position to speak their minds.
It’s strange because the whole idea of the internet—or so I believed—was to democratize speech rights and opportunities. Surely after its maturation—so I assumed—we could gain a greater understanding of the public mind. I further hoped that this realization would lead to ever more waves of emancipation for the human project in general….