Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians, Part 1
By Barry Brownstein Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent…
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Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies
By Barry Brownstein The searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written. Based on…
Resisting Tyranny Depends on the Courage to Not Conform
By Barry Brownstein Social psychologist Roy Baumeister begins his book Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, with a proposition that will be counterintuitive to many:…
Big Brother Depends on Little Brothers
By Barry Brownstein Thanks to the CDC, many children will be robbed again of a formative summer camp experience. According to 2021 CDC irrational Covid…
A Soviet Dissident Explains American Censorship
By Barry Brownstein Many consider Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate to be the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century. A searing portrait of Stalinist…
“Fahrenheit 451” Predicted People Would Demand Tyranny
By Barry Brownstein Even if it has been a while since you read Fahrenheit 451, you might remember Ray Bradbury’s classic for its portrayal of…
Without Free Speech, All Speech Becomes Government Speech
By Barry Brownstein When I viewed this video, I wondered if it was a hoax. I thought it must be a group of actors trying…
Why It Must Be The People Who Preserve The Flame of Liberty
By Barry Brownstein We are learning that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are not enough to maintain liberty. Freedom is maintained when a…
How an Entrepreneurial Mindset Can Help Save Freedom
By Barry Brownstein “Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question,” wrote the poet E. E. Cummings. In “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read asks…