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despotism

  • How Free Societies Fall for Totalitarian Temptations: Ryszard Legutko
    How Free Societies Fall for Totalitarian Temptations: Ryszard Legutko
    [FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW] Ryszard Legutko fought for freedom in Poland as an underground editor in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. But after democracy was restored in Poland, he began seeing trends ...
    August 1, 2024BY Jan Jekielek
  • A Deeply Dangerous Reading of Section 3
    A Deeply Dangerous Reading of Section 3
    Commentary Please consider the ominous implications of the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to block former President ...
    December 21, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Is Trump Plotting to Be a Tyrant?
    Is Trump Plotting to Be a Tyrant?
    Commentary Here we go with the biggest rap against Donald Trump, namely that he is an authoritarian. The ...
    December 5, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • The Valorization of the Tyrants
    The Valorization of the Tyrants
    Commentary This is surely one of the strangest twists in official narratives in perhaps hundreds of years. The ...
    September 21, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • A Tremendous Victory for Free Speech
    A Tremendous Victory for Free Speech
    Commentary Censorship is not just an attack on the free speech rights of the speaker; it is a ...
    September 11, 2023BY Brownstone Institute
  • Defending Freedom
    Defending Freedom
    Commentary Today, we face a historic turning point. We can fight for a government that defends our freedoms, ...
    September 8, 2023BY Mike Morrell
  • Why Do These People Hate Freedom?
    Why Do These People Hate Freedom?
    Commentary It was sometime two years ago during an interview on a European podcast when the host asked ...
    August 8, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • The Return to a Premodern State
    The Return to a Premodern State
    Commentary Throughout these three most difficult years of our lives, many friends have predicted that there would be ...
    April 4, 2023BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • What Does It Mean to Be a Rich Nation?
    What Does It Mean to Be a Rich Nation?
    Commentary I’m sitting at the bar at a restaurant in the center of Mexico City, a country ranked ...
    December 21, 2022BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Fauci’s Contribution to Tyranny in China
    Fauci’s Contribution to Tyranny in China
    Commentary The grim news from China again puts lockdowns on trial. It seems simply incredible that the United ...
    November 30, 2022BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • The Quarantine of Healthy Populations
    The Quarantine of Healthy Populations
    Commentary A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles ...
    October 14, 2022BY Aaron Kheriaty
  • Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
    Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
    Commentary The FBI raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida and opened a private safe, hanging around for hours ...
    August 10, 2022BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Dictatorship Chic
    Dictatorship Chic
    Commentary In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book “The Road to Serfdom,” dictatorship ...
    July 27, 2022BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • The US President Finally Gets COVID
    The US President Finally Gets COVID
    Commentary The political hierarchy of infectious disease has finally come full circle. President Joe Biden got COVID-19. COVID pandemic policies ...
    July 22, 2022BY Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Workers of the World Unite–Against Despotism
    Workers of the World Unite–Against Despotism
    Commentary ­‘Rebellion is always an evil. It is always an offence against the law of a nation. It ...
    February 11, 2022BY Scott Masson
  • Italy’s Covid Despotism Just Got Worse
    Italy’s Covid Despotism Just Got Worse
    Commentary The news from Italy has started to sound like good incipits for a dystopian fantasy novel or like a ...
    January 31, 2022BY Matteo Salonia
  • Equality in Servitude: From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism
    Equality in Servitude: From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism
    Commentary A dozen or so years ago, I took temporary leave from Georgetown University and moved to Iraq ...
    January 11, 2022BY Joshua Mitchell
  • Machiavellian Necessities and the Fragility of Liberty
    Machiavellian Necessities and the Fragility of Liberty
    Commentary In the introduction to their translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s “Discourses on Livy,” Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov ...
    October 13, 2021BY Roger Kimball
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