Dr. Norman Lewis is a writer and visiting research fellow at MCC Brussels. His Substack is What a Piece of Work is Man!
EU’s ‘Democracy Shield’: Brussels and the Art of Manufactured Consent

EU’s ‘Democracy Shield’: Brussels and the Art of Manufactured Consent

A stage-managed public feedback and consultation turns citizens into extras in a play about democracy while silencing the very questions that might challenge the Commission’s authority.

October 24, 2025
Manufacturing Misinformation: How the EU Spends Millions To Smother Free Speech

Manufacturing Misinformation: How the EU Spends Millions To Smother Free Speech

While pretending to protect ‘democracy,’ the EU is funding censorship on an industrial scale. A new report breaks it all down.

May 20, 2025
Transatlantic Tech Wars: Trump’s U.S. Builds, While the EU Bans

Transatlantic Tech Wars: Trump’s U.S. Builds, While the EU Bans

The Paris AI Summit revealed the gap between the American Empire of Innovation and Brussels’ Reign of Regulation.

February 12, 2025
Should We Have Faith in Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Conversion?

Should We Have Faith in Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Conversion?

Freedom of speech online is too important to be left to the fickle attitude of a Big Tech titan.

January 13, 2025
The EU’s Digital Dictatorship

The EU’s Digital Dictatorship

The EU Commission’s Faustian pact with social media giants—censorship for immunity—exposes the anti-democratic authoritarianism of the Brussels elite.

July 16, 2024
What’s Smart and Dumb About Smartphones?

What’s Smart and Dumb About Smartphones?

A technological marvel that spans centuries of discovery and invention but which fuels narcissistic indulgence rather than a source of inspiration to invent the future.

September 17, 2023