Mason

Major TV affiliates are refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel Live!—not for ratings, but for politics. What does it mean when powerful broadcasters silence voices they disagree with? It’s not just a programming choice. It’s a warning sign for democracy. Read more about how corporate censorship threatens free speech—and what we can do about it.

In a time when lies shout louder than truth and ignorance masquerades as patriotism, are we being too tolerant of intolerance? From the quiet banks of the Cowpasture River, a reflection on Karl Popper, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the slow drift from democracy.

“We want life to follow a moral script: that virtue will be rewarded, and cruelty punished. But the world doesn’t bend on its own toward fairness. If it does bend, it’s because someone, somewhere, is leaning hard on it.”