John Whitehead
The Right to Be Let Alone in the Face of the Government’s Power Grabs
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Coinciding with the second anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, The Rutherford Institute has issued an in-depth, follow-up report on the impact of the nation’s response to the pandemic on civil liberties. The 2022 report, “The…
The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is,…
Death Row Inmate Asks for Firing Squad, Calls on Supreme Court to Allow for Alternative Method of Execution Under Eighth Amendment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a death row inmate’s request for an alternative, less painful, method of execution. Pointing out that a medical condition could result in significant pain as a result…
Digital Tyranny: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.”—Thomas Paine The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it.…
The Rise of Global Fascism and the End of the World as We Know It
“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” — “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot Barely three years into the 2020s, and we seem to be living out the prophesies of the Book…
Where Does Free Speech End & Government Censorship Begin on the Football Field? School Bans Coach From Silently Praying After Games
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do football coaches have a First Amendment right to kneel and offer up a personal, silent prayer on the field after a football game or practice? More than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court refused…
The State of Our Nation: Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the…
