Historian Nicole Hemmer outlines the telling parallels between the post-WWI, post-flu pandemic Roaring '20s and the current moment in America. We hunger for the same aliveness and creativity evident in the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance, she writes, but we must guard against the surges of xenophobia and hate that previewed the total economic collapse to come during the Great Depression.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/510070.html (Natural News) If you were to stroll through any typical upper-middle-income American neighborhood in 2021, the odds are very high that you’d observe at least one yard sign exuberantly proclaiming something like this: “In this house, we believe that science is real, love is love, no human is illegal … ” and other banal tautologies. There are usually six or seven examples in this litany, but really, one of the main goals of the yard sign aside from signaling virtue can be accomplished with just this: the curtsy to Science.
(Article by Gregory Gordon republished from Mises.org)
The Tyranny of the “Enlightened” Experts
Gregory Gordon | Mises.org
Of course, scientists were never supposed to run our society
The technocrat class cannot possess all of the knowledge necessary to effectively run the lives of 330 million Americans. But that will not stop them from trying
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If you were to stroll through any typical upper-middle-income American neighborhood in 2021, the odds are very high that you’d observe at least one yard sign exuberantly proclaiming something like this: “In this house, we believe that science is real, love is love, no human is illegal … ” and other banal tautologies.
March is Women s History Month, and we re looking at some of the most groundbreaking women who paved the way for women today. These eight icons, from RGB to Michelle Obama,
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The Legend of C.E.S. Wood, Portland’s Anarchist Founding Father Artist and lawyer, poet and soldier, patrician and anarchist, Portlander Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a jack of all trades and master of quite a few. C.E.S. Wood, photographed by Ansel Adams. By KEITH MOERER In his later years he looked like Zeus, with wild white hair and an untamed beard. Like the Greek god, he had a reputation for womanizing. And, though no deity himself, he was no ordinary mortal. His name was Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and it s unlikely that Portland was ever home to a more colorful or versatile citizen.