Most of us have done a pretty good job at moving on from COVID.
But every once in a while, something reminds us just how crazy those few years really were. We really did live through a massive psy-op, and the craziest thing is that some people still don’t know it.
Governments around the world really did suppress true information about natural immunity.
Public health officials really did make us sit six feet apart from each other at our loved ones' funerals.
Social media companies really did ban people for saying things that are now openly acknowledged as true.
Churches really did rebrand as strip clubs so they could stay open during lockdowns.
Wait what??
Yikes.
The thing is, it wasn’t just incompetence. It was ideology.
The “experts” didn’t just get things wrong—they attacked anyone who questioned their narrative, and weaponized private companies to control what people could talk about and do.
The result wasn’t just bad policy; it was broken trust, shuttered businesses, massive learning loss, mental health crises, and a generation of kids taught that fear and obedience matter more than freedom and truth.
Phew. Thank goodness those days are gone, right?
Except they aren’t.
Because the same mindset that gave us lockdowns and mandates—the same willingness to ignore history, silence dissent, and sacrifice liberty for control—is still alive and well.
Worse, it’s been rebranded and is being sold to our kids as virtue.
Censorship. Authoritarianism. Blind trust in bureaucrats. These aren’t things we just read about in the history of Cold War Russia. They’re ideas taught as virtuous and progressive in schools, celebrated in media, and absorbed by teens who’ve never been taught to spot propaganda when they see it.
That’s why we’ve been working on something new.
In just a couple of days, we’re launching a brand new book—one I’ve been wanting to write for a long time. One that’s time has definitely come.
The title is still under wraps, but here’s the gist: it’s a guidebook for teens (and their parents) to recognize and reject some of the worst ideas governments have ever come up with to make people dumber, less free, and less prosperous. The kind of ideas that have wrecked economies, destroyed liberty, and ruined millions of lives—and yet, somehow, keep coming back.
Our kids deserve better. They deserve context, clarity, the tools to ask hard questions, and the courage to think for themselves.
This new book gives them all of that—and more.
We’ll be launching later this week, but for now, just know this: if you’ve ever looked at the world and thought, “How are people still falling for this stuff?”—you’re going to love what we’ve written.
Stay tuned.
— Connor
