Brownstone Category
This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It
From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish Flu…
The Age of Experts
“In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.” ~ Albert Camus Once upon a time – and…
Lockdowns Shredded the Social Contract: Interview with Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta, epidemiologist at Oxford University and a prolific historian and novelist, and a contributor at Brownstone Institute, speaks to…
The Urge to Shame, Purge, and Exclude Diminishes Ourselves
Sally had drawn a Confederate flag picture on the cover of her writing journal that sat on her desk. She…
People of Shanghai Forced Into Hard Lockdown
Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this…
The Expendables: The Biopolitics of Human Sacrifice
There is a hospital in downtown Vancouver called St. Paul’s, which, for those of a certain age, is reminiscent of…
Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing
Last week, medical journalist Katherine Eban posted at Vanity Fair the results of a long and detailed investigation into the…
How Signaling Turns Virtue Into Vice
In decades hence, historians will no doubt identify plenty of cultural developments that defined our age. Perhaps the most obvious…
A Physician’s Plea for Exemption: Full Text
Over the past 10 years I have worked as a board-certified Emergency Physician in Louisiana. Shortly after the Pfizer mRNA…
The Cancellation of Tchaikovsky
I have an old LP on the turntable now, a 1985 Berlin Philharmonic performance of Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture. Recorded almost…
Lockdowns Had a Devastating Impact on Religion
The government’s unprecedented decision to essentially “lock down” most of society and quarantine nearly everyone, including the healthy, and severely…
Why this Nonstop Fear Mongering?
Today, March 31, 2022, a headline in the New York Times reads: “Caution Urged as States Slow the Virus Fight”…
Air Force Cadets Covid Vaccination Religious Exemption Denied
About a week ago a United States Air Force Academy cadet was informed by a superior officer that upon returning…
Nuremberg, 1947
In the 1930s, German medicine and German healthcare institutions were widely considered the most advanced in the world. However, subtle…
This Is No Path to Happiness
Sometimes I think Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and co-author of the book COVID-19: The Great…
The Missing Progressive Jewish Response
During the pandemic most religious institutions, across all faiths, have failed to advocate for their own value and rather have…
The Anti-Lockdown Australian Journalist: Interview with Adam Creighton
Adam Creighton is economics editor at The Australian, and a served as a leading voice for two years raising troubling…
How the CDC Buries the Truth about Natural Immunity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the U.S. government’s major operating components, an agency under…
Concerned Ontario Doctors’ Covid-19 Summit Part II: Complete Transcript
The event: “Medicine, Science and Public Health: Restoring Trust and International Ethical Principles,” premiered March 20, 2022. What follows is…
The 4th Shot: The Flawed Research
A new preprint has been offered as proof that the 4th dose save lives. Here is the key figure, death from Covid-19…
The German Faith in Authority
The ongoing pandemic revealed two problematic aspects of German society. Firstly, there appears to be widespread faith in government bodies…
Where Is the Bio-Fascist State Headed?
California has been the tip of the spear for novel pandemic policies. My home state’s failures are legion, and it…
The Moral Imperative of Sanctuary
The headlines of two years, and intensifying by the day, have followed a trajectory from the history books: disease, quarantine,…
The Specter of Asymptomatic Spread
In January 2020, at the very start of the pandemic, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter that suggesting the…
Eli Lilly Fired Employees for Refusing the Vaccine
Mandy Van Gorp was confident that her employer of 18 years, Eli Lilly and Company, would treat her fairly when…
How Coercion Compromised the Vaccine
The fight over the Covid vaccines has become an epic struggle. It’s not just about who should get the shot…
Not Every Health Problem Needs a Social Solution
In his pre-COVID book Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism (2017), nanny-state nemesis Christopher Snowdon reports on the rise and pernicious…
The White House is Now Your Doctor!
The New York Times is reporting this: “Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up.”…
Covid Prediction: January 2020
With new pouring out of China in January 2020, and knowing full well of government powers over disease management, I…
Dear Art Institution: End these Mandates!
As a practicing artist in Philadelphia, I am dismayed that the arts organizations I love and whose activities I regularly…