by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 5, 2022 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Covid-19, Florida, New York, Politics, USA, Vaccines, Why America Matters Book
“Why, after three decades of life as a New Yorker, did you move to Florida?” I’m often asked this question with a mix of wonder, as if I’d just traveled across Mongolia on horseback, tainted by Upper East Side disdain (“Did you retire early?” How was the hurricane?”...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 28, 2022 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Covid-19, New York, Politics, Stormwall Book, Trending, USA, Vaccines
Image credit: Getty Images I thought it might be time to follow up on my post from a year ago, which asked the rhetorical question, Are Masks Becoming a Class Issue?, and more recently “Let Them Eat Cake … But Make Sure They’re Wearing a Mask.” Last week witnessed the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 13, 2022 | Blog Articles, Covid-19, USA, Vaccines, Why America Matters Book
Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images News It’s all happening now. After two years of tyranny, manifesting in authoritarian response from Statist bureaucracies around the world, citizens of democratic countries have said enough is enough. Tens of thousands of truckers,...
by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog Articles, Covid-19, Election 2020, Politics, Uncategorised, USA, Vaccines, Why America Matters Book
Image credit – theamericanprospect.com Those who oppose the iron fist of the state security apparatus will be lumped together in slick, corporate news reports with the criminal underclass. – Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion These words were written by Pulitzer...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 23, 2021 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Covid-19, USA, Vaccines
Image credit: abc.net Here’s a simple way to think about vaccine mandates, using excerpts from political philosopher John Stuart Mill, writing in On Liberty: The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 3, 2021 | Blog Articles, Covid-19, New York, Politics, Vaccines
Images source: Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue website I was in midtown Manhattan yesterday, my first trip back in three months. Having lived in NYC for most of three decades, the lockdowns – worse here than perhaps anywhere in the US – finally drove me out...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 26, 2021 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Covid-19, Energy, Inflation, Vaccines, Why America Matters Book
Photo by Sabina Music Rich on Unsplash “The inflation we’re experiencing is not transitory. It’s here to stay, and its effects will be horrific.” The inflation we’re experiencing is not transitory. It’s here to stay, and its effects will be horrific....
by Michael Wilkerson | Sep 21, 2021 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Covid-19, Trending, Vaccines
Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue, Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images The Metropolitan Museum of Art held its annual fund-raising gala last week, a conclave of the rich and famous drawn from New York’s...
by Michael Wilkerson | Sep 14, 2021 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Covid-19, Vaccines
Let’s run a thought experiment and imagine ourselves back in 1986. I tried to get Elon Musk to provide a time machine, but apparently he’s waiting on spare parts from China. So instead, let’s just close our eyes, put on some Lionel Richie or Pet Shop Boys, and have...