Brownstone Category
Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight!
The legend is that patents are a just reward for new inventions. The reality is that they are government grants…
Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown
The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in…
How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?
The 1998 movie Enemy of the State starring Gene Hackman and Will Smith seemed like fiction at the time. Why…
How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It
Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power…
The CDC Failed, So Spin It Off and Make It More Powerful?
The failure of the CDC to manage Covid-19 was baked in from the first moments of its response. A government…
A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years.…
Did Lockdowns Turn Americans Into Lazy Bums?
It looks as if we can add another line to the long list of lockdown harms. Sloth. This explains so…
Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
The FBI has raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida and opened a private safe, hanging around for hours looking for…
Just How Healthy Are These Labor Markets?
The news of the falling unemployment and the rise in total payrolls in July 2022 came as a welcome relief…
Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO
Many of us with a libertarian frame of mind presume as a matter of theory that the interests of business…