By now LewRockwell.com readers are aware of how Google ended the site’s ability to generate advertising revenue to support its functions. They are hoping that this will kill of LewRockwell.com once and for all. One of the accusations by the anonymous Google totalitarians was that the site spreads “misinformation” about COVID, vaccine mandates, etc. This is a familiar Leninist censorship tactic to those of us who have experienced or observed the smears, lies, and libel campaigns of the campus Left over the past several decades. The following is a brief example from my own experience. About twelve years ago Walter … Continue reading →
My friend Tom wrote the following:
“The university administrators knew that Walter Block himself would never apologize, and neither would I, the sponsor of the lecture. So they pressured several members of the economics department who were not even at the lecture to write a letter of apology in the student newspaper, which they dutifully did. That letter was a lie, since it was signed by “The Economics Department” despite the fact that I did not even hear of the letter as it was being written and certainly did not sign it, and neither did the department chairman, Father Hank Hilton, S.J., who considered the entire charade to be morally and intellectually fraudulent.”
America’s Stalinist Universities
In a recent article on LewRockwell.com entitled “Imposing the Steal: America’s Great Struggle Session,” Vasko Kohlmayer explained how a tool of twentieth-century totalitarians was “public humiliation and torment” of those with “wrong thinking.” The targeted individuals were compelled to confess their wrongdoing, apologize to society, and repent for the error of their thinking.
The reason for this is that “To totalitarians truth is as the cross is to the devil.” Totalitarians “force their victims to give up that which is true and accept that which is false.” As F.A. Hayek wrote in the