The Crisis That Gave Birth to Censorship As Robert Higgs famously argued in Crisis and Leviathan, the state thrives on crises—real or manufactured—to expand its power at the expense of individual liberty. The creation of the Global Engagement Center (GEC) in 2016 is a textbook example. Born from the ashes of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s “Russiagate” narrative, this entity was established to counter “foreign propaganda.” But the true propaganda was always domestic: a relentless effort to stifle dissent and silence narratives that challenge Washington’s orthodoxy. Does the First Amendment still matter? That’s the question every American should be asking. The GEC’s mission was ostensibly to “recognize, expose, and counter disinformation.” Yet in practice, it became a tool to blacklist publications,…
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