Michael Baker, Author at Australians for Science and Freedom

Bulgaria isn’t known as a source of humour, but back in the days of the Eastern Bloc and the Iron Curtain, there was a popular joke circulating in the country: ‘Bulgaria has the longest cow in the world; it grazes in Bulgaria but it’s milked in Moscow.’ It just so

Minds that dare: restoring Western education – a true story

Michael Baker

February 25, 2026

Education, Humanities

It’s 2023 and the Western education system is broken, the culmination of a process that has its roots as long ago as the turn of the century.

The Perverse Nature of the Medical Profession

September 8, 2025

Health, Science, Society & Law

The natural business model of an army is to fight enemies, so any large army will find enemies to justify its existence. Similarly, the natural business model of a government bureaucracy is to solve problems of the population it “serves,” so a large bureaucracy should be expected to find or

Into the Abyss: How Bad Can the Covid Vaccine Story Get?

August 3, 2025

Health, Science

All Brownstone readers know that the Covid vaccines should never have been mandatory and should never have been prescribed to children or pregnant women, groups for which they were not tested. All of us have been alarmed to see stories of surprisingly many sudden heart failures, turbo cancers, and failed

Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western Accomplishments

May 30, 2025

Humanities, Society & Law

Every decade of the modern era has ended with more people living longer on this planet. Threats were real, but underneath it all we humans still kept making headway, improving life on average for the masses.

What Must Modern Top-Flight Education Look Like?

May 1, 2025

Education, Society & Law

A good education prepares one for the realities of adulthood and successful interaction with the world. At the university level, whether via college or homeschooling, a good education develops the intellectual, emotional, and social muscles. One is moulded into a person who uses tools, not crutches; who accepts responsibility rather

Has Team Trump Blinked?

March 18, 2025

Economy, Society & Law

There is much to celebrate in the first seven weeks of the Trump presidency. Most importantly, the Western globalist elite has fractured, no longer a united front that belittles and enslaves all others.

What Will the Trump Wrecking Ball Hit Next?

February 26, 2025

Economy, Health, Media, Science, Society & Law

It has been highly entertaining and heartening to watch the reforms embarked upon by Team Trump this past month, although not for the minority that voted for his opponent who has maintained a steady rage on social and legacy media since things actually started getting done. Team Trump has kept

A Vision for a New Liberalism

March 4, 2024

Education, Humanities, Society & Law

The freedom-oriented movement that has steadily grown and galvanised opposition to government and corporate coercion in the last four years has produced many brilliant analyses of problems and culprits. Yet precious little time has been spent thinking about how a better society could work, and what constructive next steps can

Can Federalising Central Governments Fix…Federalism?

February 2, 2024

Society & Law

The US, Australia, and the EU each started out as federalist ideas with extremely independent constituent states, and with constitutions that made the rise of a large central government illegal and impossible. Yet, in all three places, the federalist project has failed, and a giant central bureaucracy has arisen that