The Post-Partisan Emporium

Elites Meet to Plan Your Health: The Role of the Council on Foreign Relations BY  KILEY HOLLIDAY   he grisly Shanghai lockdown, now entering its eighth week, has forced a reckoning among members of Democratic America’s expert class—even if very few are willing to publicly admit it. Liberal media outlets like the  New York Times , which  depicted  China’s draconian Zero Covid strategy as commendable in early 2021, are  now  rightly identifying the collateral damage that results when a government prioritizes Covid prevention above all else.  Democratic leaders and their accomplices in media and the academy, however, have yet to concede that non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were tremendously damaging to our society and ineffective in terms of quelling the virus. Instead, they are trying to save face and maintain the legitimacy of the isolate-vaccinate paradigm, while adroitly distancing themselves from Xi Jinping’s brand of containment.  This tactical retreat is especially conspicu

George W. Bush Lets Slip the Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Modern West Chris Waldburger George W. Bush ordered a western invasion of the Middle East which led to the deaths of millions,  the destruction of the oldest Christian communities on earth , and the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. So it seems that even when he tries to denounce Vladimir Putin, something deep in his psyche cannot help but escape: Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.” May 19th 2022 39,391 Retweets 137,809 Likes I distinctly remember watching bombs fall on Baghdad indiscriminately one evening in 2003. The invasion was based on lies - that Saddam Hussein had links with Al Qaeda, that the people of Middle East wanted western democracy, and that weapons of mass destructions were being built for use on the west. Many western nations joined Bush’s evil crusade, including Blair’s Britain and  a s

The Ethical Quandary of Social Transition Novel psychological interventions now being implemented in schools create a pipeline to lifelong medicalization of people who would otherwise have become gay Wesley Yang Today’s guest post by Lisa Selin Davis looks at how the media framed a recently published study of the effects of socially transitioning gender nonconforming youths ( “a process that typically involves changing a child’s pronouns, first name, hairstyle, and clothing,”)  to support a favored conclusion (that cross-gender identity is stable over time in trans kids) when the findings might better be seen as providing evidence for a very different conclusion (that social transition primes many gender nonconforming and dysphoric young people for a lifetime of intensive medical interventions with a broad range of known and unknown risks and harms that they would not otherwise have undertaken in the absence of such interventions.) This tendentious massaging of  the findings of social