Evening Sky 2-8-26

Soros’s influence is not confined to elections. It reaches into media, academia, and civil society, not necessarily by owning newspapers, but by funding the institutions that produce journalists, certify expertise, and police the boundaries of acceptable speech.

It reaches into the world of “fact checking,” where the public is told that the only legitimate interpretation is the one that serves the donor class’s preferred narrative. It reaches into advocacy groups that pressure advertisers, deplatform dissent, and label ordinary political disagreement as dangerous misinformation.

Here is the philosophical point that many readers sense but cannot easily articulate. A liberal society requires disagreement. It requires contestation. It requires that citizens be free to argue about the good, the true, and the just.

But a system that quietly rigs the credentialing mechanisms and narrative gatekeeping does not defeat disagreement by argument. It defeats it by disqualification. It teaches the public that certain conclusions are not wrong, but forbidden. [Alexander Muse]

Good Night, Patriots!