Brownstone Category

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…

May 4, 2022

How Lockdowns Came to Italy

In Snake Oil, I detail the evidence that the Chinese Communist Party used multiple modes of influence including online propaganda, mainstream…

May 4, 2022

Why are Standards So Lax on Covid Drug Approvals?

Many scientists made a career fighting for better regulatory standards. Strangely, when it comes to the regulatory policy around COVID-19,…

May 3, 2022

Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book

Imagine yourself saddled up to a bar. A talkative guy sits down on the stool next to you. He has…

May 3, 2022

On What Basis Did Pfizer Claim 95%?

Buried within the FDA’s briefing document for the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting on December 10, 2020, for…

May 3, 2022

The Great Unmasking

It finally happened. Masks are no longer required on US airlines or on domestic flights.  Of course, this fantastic development…

May 2, 2022

When Haircuts Were Illegal

Unless we just decide to forget, historians will look back in astonishment.  Healthcare spending declined in a pandemic.  People were…

May 2, 2022

The Mysterious Rise in Severe Diseases in Children

Since the pandemic young children are dealing with a mysterious increase in disease. Some may even have doubled in frequency,…

May 2, 2022

What Covid Containment Has Done to Our Children

For the past two years, what Western governments have done to the next generation — all in the name of…