Brownstone Category

May 16, 2022

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…

May 16, 2022

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…

May 15, 2022

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…

May 15, 2022

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…

May 14, 2022

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…

May 13, 2022

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…

May 13, 2022

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…

May 13, 2022

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…

May 13, 2022

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…

May 12, 2022

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…

May 12, 2022

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…

May 12, 2022

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…

May 11, 2022

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…

May 11, 2022

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…

May 11, 2022

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…

May 10, 2022

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…

May 9, 2022

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…

May 9, 2022

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…

May 9, 2022

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…

May 9, 2022

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…

May 8, 2022

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.…

May 7, 2022

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…

May 6, 2022

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…

May 6, 2022

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…

May 6, 2022

The Triumph of Natural Immunity

A new CDC study shows that around 75% of American children – and nearly 60% of adults – have already had…

May 6, 2022

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…

May 5, 2022

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,…

May 5, 2022

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…

May 5, 2022

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…

May 4, 2022

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…