Alternative Media and the Pursuit of Truth: Part 4
The Mises Institute, The Claremont Institute, and Law & Liberty
When once-trusted media sources parrot approved narratives while ignoring facts and evidence, those who value truth must look for it in other places.
This is the fourth article in a five-part series on alternative media (previous installments can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). The three sites listed below are all connected to Institutes (what some might call “think tanks”) that exist to encourage research and careful thinking about various issues facing our world. Brief descriptions of each of these sites are provided below, along with a selection of articles from each source.
As I’ve explained in previous articles, linking to these resources is not a blanket endorsement of every article or opinion, but it is an endorsement of their willingness to engage with evidence and to publish content that contradicts the accepted narratives of our day. I’ve linked to some of the best articles I’ve read from these sites over the past two years, but I’ve specifically chosen ones I think are urgently needed in light of recent events in Canada, Austria, and a few other places (more on these situations in the coming days).
The Mises Institute
Since the world first shut down in March 2020, I’ve read a significant number of articles from the Mises Institute that have cut through a lot of the political narratives surrounding covid, explaining quite clearly how covid-19 had been was being used by governments and global elites to achieve their own purposes. Several of these articles (including a series on the Great Reset) are reproduced below as well as links on other topics. The articles on the Great Reset are perhaps the most relevant of all right now in light of the relentless push in some places for so-called vaccine passports (despite the fact the vaccines in no way stop transmission). Here’s a bit more about the Mises Institute:
The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, teaches the scholarship of Austrian economics, freedom, and peace. The liberal intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) guides us. Accordingly, we seek a profound and radical shift in the intellectual climate: away from statism and toward a private property order. We encourage critical historical research, and stand against political correctness. The Institute serves students, academics, business leaders, and anyone seeking better understanding of the Austrian school of economics and libertarian political theory.
“The Tyranny of the ‘Enlightened’ Experts”
“Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu.”
What is the Great Reset? (6 parts)
(A) “What Is the Great Reset? Part I: Reduced Expectations and Bio-techno-feudalism”
(B) “The Great Reset, Part II: Corporate Socialism”
(C) “The Great Reset, Part III: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”
(D) “The Great Reset, Part IV: ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ vs. ‘Neoliberalism’”
(E) “The Great Reset, Part V: Woke Ideology”
(F) “The Great Reset, Part VI: Plans of a Technocratic Elite”
The Claremont Institute
I became aware of The Claremont Institute after reading an outstanding article entitled “The Masking of America” (linked below). While I have not read many of the Institute’s publications, what I have read has been superbly written. The Institute’s work is much needed in the fight against tyranny and the battle for the truth. Consider this excellent overview from the site’s about page:
Overview
To return to limited government, conservatives must return to the principles of the American Founding. The Claremont Institute provides the missing argument in the battle to win public sentiment by teaching and promoting the philosophical reasoning that is the foundation of limited government and the statesmanship required to bring that reasoning into practice.
Who We Are
We are a think tank that teaches, writes, and litigates. Since our founding in 1979, our strategy has been to teach the principles of the American Founding to the future thinkers and statesmen of America. Those principles include the foundational doctrines of natural rights and natural law found in the Declaration of Independence; the ingenious political science of the Constitution; and the popular constitutionalism or reverence necessary for the maintenance of free government.
What We Do
Rather than concentrate on policy like many other think tanks, the Claremont Institute teaches the principles and ideas that shape policy over time to the few that will go on to positions of leadership in media, politics, law, speechwriting, and academia.
We teach. We educate the best and most promising young writers, lawyers, activists, academics, entrepreneurs, and public servants through our Publius, Lincoln, John Marshall and Speechwriters Fellowship programs, and engage this next generation of conservative leaders in a life-long study of the true principles of government and their application to today’s policies.
We write. We engage policy at the level of ideas in the Claremont Review of Books, our flagship quarterly publication, which aims to reawaken in American politics a statesmanship and citizenship worthy of its noblest political traditions.
We litigate. We promote the application of first principles in the Courts and amongst legal practitioners through our Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, which files legal briefs advancing the jurisprudence of the Constitution and the Founding, and engages in strategic constitutional litigation.
Below are links to the homepage as well as several truly excellent articles:
“The Masking of America: Faceless people make compliant subjects, not good citizens.”
“From Big Tech to Big Brother: The problem of monopoly in a digital age”
“The Social Justice Endgame: What do social justice warriors want?”
Law & Liberty
Over the past two years, I’ve read many insightful articles from Law & Liberty. From the website:
Law & Liberty’s focus is on the classical liberal tradition of law and politics and how it shapes a society of free and responsible persons.
This site brings together serious debate, commentary, essays, book reviews, interviews, and educational material in a commitment to examining the first principles of a free society as they appear in law, history, political thought, and other aspects of culture.
Below is a link to the homepage as well as several valuable articles.
“America’s Cultural Revolution?”