Brownstone Category

April 30, 2022

Real Personal Income Down 20% from One Year Ago

Well, here’s another shocker. This Commerce Department report showed that real disposable personal income in March came in at -19.9% versus March…

April 30, 2022

Back to the Sedition Act of 1798

For years we were told that social media is privately owned so its curation cannot be called censorship; it’s just…

April 29, 2022

Fauci Sets New Records for Obfuscation 

In an interview with PBS News Hour on Tuesday, April 26th, Dr. Anthony Fauci said “We are certainly right now…

April 29, 2022

The Battle for Control of Your Mind

In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot…

April 29, 2022

Two Weeks to Flatten the GDP 

What is it with these pundits and government spokespeople? Two years ago, they were wildly exaggerating virus threats, canceling and…

April 28, 2022

Fear and Loathing of the Unvaccinated Gets Another Boost

A study was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) titled “Impact of population mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated…

April 28, 2022

The Fragmented Trust in Public Health

Building trust in institutions is vital to their success, but as we enter the third year of the pandemic, public…

April 28, 2022

The UK Covid Response: A Stool with Three Legs

Respiratory viruses are both unpredictable and commonplace. The name of the most well-known one, Influenza, originated in 15th century Italy,…

April 28, 2022

Recovery Is Possible: The Case of Post-War Germany

“I spent my career as an academic studying great depressions. I can tell you from history that if we don’t…

April 28, 2022

John Stuart Mill on Contagious Diseases and the Law 

The covid crisis confused many otherwise reasonable people, bringing about some unpredictable political stances on all sides. For example, some…

April 27, 2022

The Next Ten Battles

It is apparently much easier to tell the truth about state action the farther away it is from home. And…

April 27, 2022

Elon Musk Conquers Twitter

It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever…

April 27, 2022

Silent No More: Voices Against Restrictions and Mandates

Around the world, people are coming together to stand up for bodily autonomy, and against the widespread harm that emergency…

April 26, 2022

The Attorney Who Won the Mask Mandate Case in Florida: An Interview

Brant Hadaway, the attorney who represented the Health Freedom Defense Fund in the federal district court case against the transportation…

April 26, 2022

The Psychology of Mimetic Contagion

My friend and colleague Dr. Mary Talley Bowden recently posed this important question, which has puzzled many people during the…

April 26, 2022

Revamping Our Dysfunctional Drug Approval Process

It is a tried-and-true tactic with effective and dastardly results. Big Pharma and other well-financed interests sponsor purportedly “impartial” medical…

April 26, 2022

How Panic Spread: Covid in the Early Days

It was February 2020, and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming information about a deadly new virus emanating from…

April 26, 2022

New Zealand Used Selective Science and Force to Drive High Vaccination Rates 

We expect that knowledge produced and applied in a health emergency will produce information that is protective of health. But…

April 25, 2022

Things the CDC Does Not Know

There are many things the CDC does not actually know. They did not run the appropriate studies, so they do…

April 25, 2022

Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and the Future of Masking

San Diego’s nickname is “America’s Finest City.”  Whether you agree with that designation or not, there are few people in…

April 25, 2022

Must We Make a Case Against Dictatorship? 

Some federal officials have made startling statements in recent days. Given the times in which we live, we can no…

April 25, 2022

The Grave Dangers of Politicizing Medicine

For the past 20 years, medical practitioners (nurses and doctors) were ranked the most trusted professions by the Gallup Honesty…

April 24, 2022

Reich (and Fauci) are Wildly Wrong

Dear Correspondent, Because when you sent to me the following tweet by Robert Reich you provided no commentary, I can’t tell if…

April 24, 2022

Mask Mania: Interview with Ian Miller

Ian Miller is the author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of Mask Mandates. With the topic very much in the…

April 23, 2022

Math Proficiency Rates Show Impact of Prolonged School Closures 

I was recently enlisted to help create some visuals to help convey the concerning trend in math proficiency of Middle…

April 22, 2022

Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine?

Randomized controlled trials show all-cause mortality reduction from the Covid adenovirus-vector vaccines (RR=0.37, 95%CI: 0.19-0.70) but not from the mRNA…

April 22, 2022

Covid Policy Tactics Were Borrowed from the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War inflicted great pain: 58,220 Americans—average age, 23— were killed, along with over one million Vietnamese soldiers and…

April 22, 2022

The Meltdown of the Mask Cult

On Monday, major US airlines suddenly dumped their mask mandates after a federal judge struck down the CDC’s national mask mandate for…

April 21, 2022

Why Is CDC Trying to Put a Mask on Your Face Again?

We know the wicked truth about Chairman Mao’s “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom.” He said this in 1957 while inviting…

April 21, 2022

The Federal Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans

In May of 2021, the Biden Administration began a public, coordinated campaign to combat the dissemination of “health misinformation” related…