Entries by MercatorNet - Navigating Modern Complexities

Will solid-state batteries bail out electric vehicles? Electric cars currently have rather combustible batteries!

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Recently, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a recall for electric-vehicle batteries made by LG Energy Solution of South Korea. Fires have been caused by some of these batteries, which are used in Mercedes, Hyundai, and General Motors products, among others. The problem is that rare manufacturing defects can cause overheating and fires. An Associated Press article describing the […]

America must take care of its families, or go the way of the Roman Empire

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Time to turn away from materialism and imperialism. One thing demographers have known all along is something you cannot deny: “Demography is destiny.” The phrase was coined by 19th century Frenchman Auguste Comte. Agree or not with his positivist philosophy, he nailed it about demography. While clickbait comes at us with news of wars, markets and […]

Wokeness is stalking your kids. Here’s how to protect them

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Parents need Courage, Clarity, Compassion, and Communication to dialogue effectively with their children. In recent weeks, the following incidents took place, all involving people I know personally who live near me. A middle-schooler was unable to focus at school where a female student who identifies as a boy identifying as a dog kept barking in […]

Shanghai’s Orwellian Nightmare is a Reminder of the Inhumanity of Absolutist Approaches to Disease Control

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Residents screaming from windows? Children taken from parents? What is going on? According to official reports, over 25 million Shanghai residents were placed under strict lockdown from March 27, due to rising cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. And when they say “lockdown,” they don’t just mean, “essential travel only.” They mean, do not […]

Why do so many ‘experts’ screw things up so often?

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Only seven percent of journalists in the United States’ national media scene identify as conservatives or libertarians. Why do so many experts seem to be so very wrong, so often? This is the curious question recently posed by a contrarian American political scientist at Kentucky State University, Wilfred Reilly. His catalogue of things the experts got wrong, […]

Abortion: The Perfect Cover-Up for Rape

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The sickening revelations from the Rochdale sex abuse scandal are a reminder that abortion and abuse go hand in hand. In the UK, Police have issued an apology and paid substantial damages to three women now in their 30s, who as children were repeatedly sexually abused and raped by organised gangs. Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen […]

VIDEO: The Batwa paid the ultimate price to save gorillas. Do environmentalists care?

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Which is more important: human beings or exotic species? The Batwa are a group of pygmy people who have lived in central Africa for millennia. Their homeland spreads across what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shorter in stature than other Africans, they dwell in highland rainforests, where they survive by hunting small […]

Report: Chinese doctors executed prisoners for their organs

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Another in a series of damning reports. Shocking allegations about Chinese organ donation have been made in a leading medical journal, the American Journal of Transplantation. An Australian researcher and an Israeli transplant surgeon claim that “physicians in the People’s Republic of China have participated in executions by organ removal”. Mathew Robertson, of the Australian National […]

How we are being diversified into uniformity

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Russell Jacoby’s book is a fascinating account of how people across the world have come to conform to a particular mode of behaviour and thought, despite claims to the contrary. On Diversity: The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era by Russell Jacoby, Seven Stories Press, 2020, 152 pp In a recent article for […]

Anti-natalism: Misanthropy on steroids

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Antinatalism or anti–natalism is the ethical view that negatively values procreation. Antinatalists argue that humans should abstain from procreation. It is really true that a lot of us wish that we had never been born? The other day our very own MercatorNet ran an informative though disturbing piece entitled “Meet the advertising expert who inspired today’s anti-population propaganda.” Didn’t […]

Disney has a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’ and it won’t end well

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Christopher Rufo is a man on a mission. In 2020, he declared a “one-man war against critical race theory” — and his efforts have been kindly rewarded. A “CRT Legislation Tracker“ on his website logs over a hundred bills in dozens of US states aimed at curriculum transparency and the purging of divisive, racialised teaching in schools. […]

Hunter Biden’s laptop and how Twitter tipped the scales of the 2020 election

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The ‘New York Times’ has finally admitted that the laptop’s emails were genuine. It is well known that Twitter makes a sport of censorship. There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to the topic. Typical of previous years, the 2022 log of Twitter suspensions is mostly a list of conservative commentators and Republican politicians — though refreshingly, a […]

New York Times Reporter Admits on Hidden Camera that January 6 is a Woke Media Beat-Up

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Caught off-guard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter tells a different story. Among the woke, it is an article of faith that January 6 was a deadly insurrection, a stain on the nation that rivals the attacks it suffered in Pearl Harbor during World War II, or in New York on 9/11. On one of the darkest […]

New York Serial Killer Dismembers Woman and Woke Media Fears to Misgender Him

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The New York Times and the BBC have pronoun problems. Harvey Marcelin is a depraved serial killer who has murdered at least three women, spent over 50 years in prison, and whose recent grisly deeds have just hit the news. But if you were to read about Marcelin in the New York Times or the BBC, you would […]