Brownstone Category
Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health?
The dramatic shortage of baby formula underscores the point: a functioning economy is essential to public health. It’s the same…
Congress and the Pandemic Response: An Interview with Thomas Massie
Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the rare example of a statesman in the US who saw the pandemic and…
The Memo that Closed the Nation’s Schools
Early in the pandemic response, a group of intellectuals, public health officials, federal law enforcement employees, and university professionals began…
Can We Find Our Way Back to Freedom?
One of the most destabilizing aspects of the chaos of the past few years is that the pillars of society—our…
The New Rift Between WHO and China
From the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization and China’s CCP have worked and spoken hand-in-glove, culminating in…
The Red Dawn Email Dump: February-March 2020
The gigantic mess of called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn in early 2020, based on the…
Why Is an Entire Generation Ignorant of Cell Biology?
Twenty years ago, I changed careers from management at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to teach science to high school students. As cliché…
The Culture of Devaluation, Destruction, and Devolution
This has been a week of spin, with every regime apologist assuring the public that inflation is getting better. Just…
Is It a Crime to Be Exposed?
Imagine you’re back in pre-school. You’re sitting on the rug, listening to the teacher read a storybook. Suddenly, the nurse…
Why the Silence on Lockdowns?
Not so long ago, those who opposed the strict Covid lockdowns that were imposed across the world in early 2020…
The Political Hierarchy of Infection
I’m writing this mostly for future historians for whom this whole period of our lives could likely appear to be…
April’s CPI Codifies the New Age of Inflation
April was the seventh straight month in which the Y/Y CPI rose by more than 6%, and on that high…
The Supply-Chain Crisis Has a Cause
There is no Cliff Notes version of why we are experiencing these supply chain issues across the world. A host of influences…
The Baby Formula Shortage Is Serious
Before I had kids, I thought that breastfeeding was the most natural thing in the world and that it was…
The Inhumanity of Compulsory Virus Control
In the last week, some of the top spokespeople for lockdowns, and all that is associated with that policy of…
The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed
Donald Henderson, who died in 2016, was a giant in the field of epidemiology and public health. He was also…
Why Won’t They Admit Failure?
It seems strange that one of the world’s richest men would feel the need for a book tour to boost…
The Point of Masks: To Cause Alarm
Laurie Garrett is an American science journalist and former Senior Fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations. Garrett has been…
The Dangers of Compelled Belief
Jay Bhattacharya recently issued a powerful warning against pending legislation in California designed to compel physicians to adhere to the official science…
The Pathogenic Excuse for Attack Liberty: An Interview with Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, author of The Bodies of Others, assesses the future of human liberty after catastrophic Covid policies and what…
It’s Not Over. It’s Just Begun
For the last two days I’ve felt an uneasy sense of grief, or of a heavy pressure on my heart.…
Desperation and Despotism in Shanghai
For more than a month now, since April 5, 2022, Shanghai—a city of 26 million people best known as a…
Governments Giveth and Taketh Away
The jobs report this morning seemed like good news (3.6% unemployment) until you look at the details: “The U.S. labor…
Selfish: The King of Covid Epithets
Enter “Covid” plus “selfish” in a Google search box and you’ll get over 28 million hits. Here’s the type of…
The Triumph of Natural Immunity
A new CDC study shows that around 75% of American children – and nearly 60% of adults – have already had…
Bloomberg’s Attack on Jennifer Sey Should Concern Us All
As the truth about extended school closures and the forced masking of small children becomes undeniable, the attacks on those…
Twitter Launches New Purge of Covid Contrarians
Several Twitter users known for questioning U.S. government COVID-19 messaging have found themselves locked out of their accounts or suspended,…
The Digital Panopticon
Vice has broken the story that during the previous two years, as the headline announced, “The CDC tracked Millions of Phones to See…
The Fed Is Not Fixing the Problem
The 10-year UST yield has crossed the 3% mark. So you’d think this was a sign that a modicum of…
The CDC Surveilled for Lockdown Compliance
A missing piece of the great lockdown plot was enforcement. How precisely were authorities going to know the whereabouts of…