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What Orwell and Huxley Got Wrong and Kafka Got Right

What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional.

For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley resonate as maps to the present distemper. Orwell’s account of full-spectrum technological totalitarianism maps Big Tech’s mastery of Surveillance Capitalism and governments’ full-spectrum surveillance powering the fine-grained coercion of social credit scores and related tools.

Huxley’s vision of a doped-up, med-dependent populace that loves its servitude a...

On the Brave New Post-Liberal Political Order of the West, Its Nature and Its Prospects

I have now written many pieces about the escalating efforts of the German government to protect democracy from itself by abolishing a wide range of traditionally democratic freedoms. We are seeing here the glimmerings of a new, Post-Liberal Political Order (PLPO). Like other major political shifts, this one has deep roots, but it matured during the pandemic. The lockdowns and the mass vaccination hysteria soon faded, but the PLPO endured, blooming anew as establishment failures deepened the unpo...

Squatters’ Rights

You go on vacation for a month. You return home, glad to be back, but to your amazement and chagrin, there are strange people living in your house. You have never seen hide nor hair of them before this very moment. They leave the apartment. You pounce. You call a locksmith to change all the locks in your home. You, not these trespassers, are then arrested for unlawfully evicting tenants. According to New York law, if these squatters were occupying your home for 30 days, they are in effect tenant...

Gold Is Telling Us the Fed Is Wrong

This week Peter returned from vacation, and he was just in time for a surge in the price of gold. He discusses the factors contributing to gold’s record prices, the similarities between today and the 1970s, and data pointing to future inflation in America.

Peter starts this episode by noting how gold’s recent rise hasn’t received much coverage from the mainstream financial press:

“$30 on a Sunday night— that’s very rare to see that kind of move. But what’s even more rare is that there was no new...

Dr James Thorp: ‘Shedding’ Is Real, Per Study; DNA Damage To Unborn Is Real

I interview here Dr James Thorp. He is the distinguished maternal-fetal medicine specialist, who is one of the only members of the entire US OB/GYN or midwife community in the US, to speak up on behalf of his patients, or on behalf of pregnant women and babies, born and unborn, in general, regarding the damage to women and babies from the mRNA injection.

Dr Thorp, along with two other independent midwives, was among the only health professionals working with pregnant women and new moms, to warn ...

Flu Vaccination During Early Pregnancy Linked to Nearly Eightfold Risk of Miscarriage

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published September 26, 2017.

Most pregnant women know to abstain from alcohol, tobacco and other obvious toxins to protect the child growing in their womb, but what about vaccines? Pregnant women have been told to get an increasing number of vaccinations, even though there’s a shocking lack of studies to confirm the safety for mother and child.

As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) ...

New Survey Confirms That Vaccines Are, by Far, the #1 Cause of Chronic Disease in America

Executive summary

I recently asked my readers to tell me about their chronic health conditions.

The single most important conclusion is this

In all 58 conditions we asked about where we had sufficient data to compute an odds ratio, the vaccine always made the condition worse.

In other words, the medical community has gotten it backwards for decades. When you combine this with the realization that vaccines provide a benefit that is too small to measure as described here for the highly acclaimed C...

The 1934 Easter Miracle of Music

The Interwar Return of Perosi

In the radiant setting of Easter Sunday in 1934, the Church also rejoiced at the elevation to the altars of John Bosco (†1888) by Pope Pius XI (†1939). Among the elements that made this celebration even more memorable, there was the musical mastery of Lorenzo Perosi (†1956),

who, with his remarkable compositions, restored sacred music to be a sincere and worthy expression of divine worship, freeing it from a certain decadence that had affected it in some cases in th...

Is There Really Hope for Judas?

These last few Maundy Thursdays, my feed has been populated by various musings presenting Judas as a pitiable figure who may not be in hell after all. I thought it rather diabolical that a day of sympathy for our Lord is now turning into a day of sympathy for His betrayer. But as I considered this transformation or, rather, deformation, I saw that sympathy for Judas is about far more. It is about the redefinition of divine mercy.

This year’s reconsideration of Judas was sparked at least in part ...

The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?

The government wants to play god.

It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.

Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s so much more at play.

In the 50-plus years since the U.S. Supreme Cour...