Samizdata quote of the day – the ‘consensus’ must be overturned
I would like to think that the cozy post war socialist consensus is coming to a long overdue end. We defeated the divine right of kings, now we have to do the same to the divine right of bureaucrats. –...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the Scorpion State
While the desire on the part of modern conservatives to divorce themselves from ‘neoliberalism’ is understandable enough, the simple truth is that there is a very good and obvious reason why parties on...
View Article‘¡Afuera!’– Presidente-elegido Milei on the Pope, the murderous Castros and...
Probably the most important man of the 21st Century, if only for his potential to do good, Argentine President-elect (as I write) Javier Milei sat down with Tucker Carlson for an interview, (excerpt...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – are liberal conservatives sleeping with the enemy?
Tony Blair is a political virtuoso, whatever one thinks of his policies or ideas, and he stated the position very clearly. The 21st century is not a battle between capitalism and socialism. It is one...
View ArticleTen years ago, Brian Mickelthwait predicted the response to Covid-19
Ten years and ten days ago, the sadly missed Brian Micklethwait wrote this: “What if there is a real collective disaster?” Brian quoted this article by Paul Murphy which said that the response of...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Why Ayaan is now a Christian
At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they...
View ArticleI never expected an honest lockdown reckoning
“Since apologies are now required. Challenging any consensus is fundamentally important to good science – especially that of an unproven intervention such as lockdown. The onus should have been on...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the single greatest threat to free speech in Europe
“The #DSA (Digital Services Act) is here to protect free speech against arbitrary decisions.” So said Thierry Breton, EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, in a recent tweet. Given the extraordinary level...
View ArticleWe answer, you reply, they skew
“Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow.” To the Guardian’s Steven Morris, responding to a government consultation is another of those famous irregular verbs that changes its form according to who...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – the West and China share the same fate
It was managerialism that emerged as the true winner of the 20th century’s ideological battles. As Orwell prophesied in 1945: “Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now...
View Article“Covid censorship proved to be deadly”
“Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly”, writes Bret Swanson in the Wall Street Journal, but you could leave the first word off the headline and it would still be true. It is not necessary to agree with...
View ArticleBe assured we do not want your kids for selfish reasons
Dear benighted parents, you must understand that we operate under a “higher obligation”. There is a magnificently orotund opinion article by one Professor Sarah J. Reynolds in the Indystar* (the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Libertarian MIA edition
For three years, I’ve been reluctant to say anything about the elephant in the room, the near-complete failure of libertarians to stand up to the lockdown and mandate regime. It was a moment in history...
View ArticleIdeology and Insanity on the New York subway
The first few dozen grownup books I read were an odd selection. As I sampled them almost at random from my parents’ bookshelves, I became dimly aware that my parents were different people from each...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – a journey of a thousand miles
Any significant public health threat from Covid was over in the early part of 2021, as my colleague and I have previously argued. However the administrative classes – politicians, MSM, ‘public health...
View ArticleBrian Micklethwait interviewed on the subject of the history of...
I have updated the Brian Micklethwait Archive with a recording of an interview kindly given to me by Mal McDermott. On 25th January 2020 Mal interviewed Brian on the subject of the history of the...
View ArticleRights – true and false
There is a problem, so it is said, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving the workforce in their early 50s. Many of them are, I suspect, affluent and think they can afford to do this, although I...
View ArticleA young Frenchwoman says “I don’t like America that much”
pic.twitter.com/uYBErjG66L — Brittany Martinez (@BritMartinez) December 30, 2022 Allowing for the fact that she is speaking a language foreign to her, I think she has a point.
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