Sitemap - 2023 - Mindset Shifts—Essays by Barry Brownstein

2023: Defending Liberty Depends on Personal Growth

A Carol of Joy

Marcus Aurelius on Snowplows, Sports, and Freedom

A History Lesson for Those Who Haven't Spoken Out Against Antisemitism

How to Get Over Yourself

Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians, Part 2

Viktor Frankl on How to Make More Meaning in Your Life

Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians, Part 1

Tyranny Must Have Citizen Enablers

All This Has Happened Before and Is Happening Again: 1933 and 2023

Ending Our Resistance to Life, Part 3

The Miracles of Human Cooperation Are Hidden in Plain Sight

This Timeless Musical Poster is Impossible to Tear Down

When Sofya Leviton Became a Mother

Celebrating the Web of Cooperation that Sets Us Free

Hatred Will Destroy You

The Price of Cowardice is Evil

Barbarians Can’t Pass This Adam Smith Test

The Mindset that Puts Liberty at Risk

We No Longer Live in Modern Times

Local Farmers Support Your Health and are a Defense Against Tyranny

The Richest Poor Person in History

If You Hate Jews, You Hate Freedom

Beauty Vanquishes Lies

Ending Our Resistance to Life, Part 2

Are We All Made of the Same Stuff?

To Live for Grievances Risks Liberty

Seeing the Thou in Everyone

Why Civilization is at Stake

The Great Divide is Between Those Who Respect the Brotherhood of Man and Those Obsessed with Hatred

RFK Jr. vs. The Man of System, Part 2

RFK Jr. vs. The Man of System, Part 1

Are We Choosing “Living Truth” or “Dead Dogma”?

Ending Our Resistance to Life, Part 1

Bill Gates: From Entrepreneur to Supervillain

What About the Flu Vaccine?

A Noted Physician Advocates COVID Civil Disobedience

Are You Choosing to be Right or Happy?

Orwell Exposed the Cowardice of Journalists and Intellectuals

No One Is Deplorable, No One Is Irredeemable, Revisited

Why People Are Losing Their Minds

An Urgent Warning From Dr. Vinay Prasad

Google Censors Because People Want Them To

What an Economist Knows About Crony Vaccines--A 2023 Update

Reagan’s Farewell Warning Was Ignored

How Are We Using Our Days?

What Else Are We Missing?

Once in a Lifetime

Booker T. Washington’s Rule for Living

Totalitarianism Begins With Censorship

Ginger-Lemon Revitalizing Water

If We Live by Lies, We Will Demand Deceitful Politicians

Scientists Are Hatching Mad Plans to Geoengineer Earth

The Wages of War

Why JFK’s 1963 “Peace Speech” Matters Today

Only a Virtuous People Can Restore Liberty

A Timeless Method for Resisting Tyranny

The Most Important Presidential Address in American History

This Summer, Vote for Cruciferous Vegetables

A Soviet Dissident Explains American Censorship

A Dose of Reality: ‘You Are Not Special; You Are Not Exceptional’

Is Humility the Most Important Virtue?

In Mao’s China, They Even Monitored Talking in Your Sleep

The President is Not Our National Savior

Eliminating Property Rights Destroys Social Order

Why Taming Our Inner Tribal Beast Is Imperative to Civilization

Attention is Our Superpower

What Napoleon’s Hubris Teaches Us Today

Liberalism Needs No Enemies

Downsizing Your Inner Central Planner

Pivoting Away from What Feels Natural

What Thomas Jefferson Meant by ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’

The Thin Line Between Tribalism and Human Flourishing

Obstacles to Freedom Can Be the Way to Freedom

How Individuals Enable Tyranny

Why We Are Not Entitled to Our Bitterness