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Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies
David Bell
21 Nov 2022
The principle of Really Big Lies is based on their being so divorced from reality that the listener will assume their own perception must be flawed.
On Loss, Grief, Collective Trauma, and Rising From the Ashes
Kate Wand
14 Nov 2022
What I am realizing is that we can barely begin to reckon the collective trauma of our generation, because it is still unfolding in real time. The wound is still open, and sadists are playing in the wound.
Maybe the Fed Too Was Trolled
Jeffrey A. Tucker
9 Nov 2022
Lockdowns were monetized by the printing press.