HEALTH
The Health Collapse: How America’s Sickness Doomed Its Civilization
Introduction: The Unavoidable Foundation The fate of a civilization is inextricably tied to the physical and mental vitality of its people. When a nation’s collective health fails, so too does its capacity for rational governance, economic productivity, and social cohesion. The crumbling pillars of American power are not merely political […]
A Single Binge-Drinking Episode Can Damage Your Gut
Story at-a-glance Many people think of binge drinking as a short-term indulgence — a few drinks at a party, a celebration, or a stressful night out to help them unwind. The common belief is that as long as it doesn’t happen often, the body will quickly bounce back. However, a […]
GLP-1 Drugs: Reawakening Eating Disorders in a Broken Medical System
Introduction: Ed Returns with a Vengeance For Jenn Nourse, a 50-year-old emotional health practitioner, a decades-old monster named ‘Ed’ – her personified eating disorder – had been quiet for years. That changed in early 2024 when she began taking semaglutide, a GLP-1 agonist sold as Ozempic or Wegovy [1]. Nourse’s story […]
Bill Gates And Jeffrey Epstein’s Connection: Global Health Dominance
Some of the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files include Bill Gates, and what could amount to a global health dominance and control over mass vaccination. The disclosures warrant answers from the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder-turned “philanthropist,” whose foundation wields outsized influence over global vaccination and data systems. These files, recently released […]
Harvesting Serfdom: The Controlled Demolition of Food Independence
Asystemic ‘Great Dispossession’ is being beta-tested in India. It is a playbook for the end of food sovereignty, driven by the debris of the Bretton Woods system and the insatiable need for ‘market confidence’. India—the World Bank’s largest-ever borrower—is being forced to swap its indigenous agrarian economy for a model […]
Nipah Virus and the New Public Health Order
Alarge outbreak of hysteria occurred in the media over the past week, regarding a small Nipah virus outbreak in eastern India. ‘Hysteria’ is the correct word in terms of proportionality. It is not, unfortunately, the right word in terms of intent. Ten years ago this episode of Nipah virus disease would barely have rated a mention […]
Vitamin D and Magnesium Support Athletic Performance and Recovery
Story at-a-glance Are you an avid exerciser trying to break a personal record? Once you reach a point where you feel confident, there comes a time when you’ll want to take your athleticism to the next level. To do that, the usual answer is to train even harder. However, this […]
How the Public Feels Post-Covid
Some people wonder why I look at the New York Times. It’s because I want to see what narratives the “newspaper of record” is pushing. I read an article about ten years ago by an ex-NYT editor, who said that at the beginning of the year, the editors were given a list […]
The Prostate Cancer Test Dilemma
At a recent Brownstone Institute event, I spoke on a panel about the importance of judging public health interventions by their real-world impact — by whether they genuinely help people live longer and healthier lives. I had just written about mammography screening, and how decades of research show that while it detects […]
Help Make “The Rash” by Walter Kirn
There are two possible ways history will treat the Covid era. The establishment preference is for a story of a killer pathogen that leapt from the animal kingdom into humans to create a deadly pandemic that was fixed by an innovative vaccine. This is the preferred line in shrunken form, […]
