“Immanent critique” is a Marxist method of analysis arising out of the notorious Frankfurt School of subversive scholarship. In theory, the immanent critiquer enters intellectually into a targeted culture to develop its thinking along its own lines so as to … Continue Reading →
2021 was a very good year—in Sweden
The only fact, the only number, the only question that really matters in the debate over covid is overall mortality: Is covid killing more people than usual? The answer in Sweden is no, no, no, no—no lockdowns, no mask mandates, … Continue Reading →
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Just Released: Origen’s Revenge
Is the difference of male and female to be “completely shaken off” so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is … Continue Reading →
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My latest book, just released: The Disappearing Deaconess
“The whole Church has never had a tradition of having deaconesses, but the whole Church has had a tradition of not having them.” — The Disappearing Deaconess examines not just the history of deaconesses but also patristic teaching on male … Continue Reading →
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Lord Sumption on Our “Empire of Fear”
Interviewed for LockdownTV by Freddie Sayers of UnHerd, Lord Sumption, a retired justice of Britain’s Supreme Court, reveals himself to be not just a jurist but a philosopher and a Christian. Here are highlights of his comments:
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Tagged China, civil disobedience, covid, culture of restraint, democracy, LockdownTV, Lord Sumption, totalitarianism, UnHerd
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Good News: Covid Didn’t Make Much Difference in Sweden in 2020
Sweden didn’t do nearly as much as other countries to prevent coronavirus infections in 2020, yet its year turned out to be rather average in overall mortality, even arguably better than average when you consider conditions just before the pandemic hit.
Sweden’s … Continue Reading →
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Tagged coronavirus, covid, deaths, lockdowns, masks, mortality, Sweden
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Give “A Crown of Life” for Christmas!
A reader writes to my wife:
“I hate to ask you to give up your husband some more, but even apart from ‘an Orthodox book,’ it is sincerely one of my favorite books. I gave my copy away to a … Continue Reading →
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The Covid Fraud in Two Simple Graphs
Never mind all you’ve heard about covid cases and covid deaths. This one simple graph shows better than anything else how deadly covid is not. It compares deaths from all causes in Sweden from 2015 to 2020, adjusting for population … Continue Reading →
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Tagged cases, coronavirus, covid, deaths, lockdowns, masks, mortality, Sweden
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Save Lives, Save Science, Sign Here
It’s about time the many medical experts who haven’t drunk the covid Kool-Aid joined forces in defense of science and sanity, but what took them so long?
Maybe they thought when deaths dropped to zero the world would notice and the … Continue Reading →
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Tagged coronavirus, covid, Great Barrington Declaration, herd immunity, lockdowns, masks, social distancing
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Of Masks and Men, or, Catching Covid on Jet-skis
Last week, Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, held up the thinnest, flimsiest, cheapest face mask on the market and told a Senate panel that these masks “are the most important, powerful public health tool we have.” Redfield claimed … Continue Reading →
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Tagged aerosolized, aerosols, CDC, coronavirus, covid, masks, Redfield, ventilation
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