Brownstone Category
Testing Mania: Illogical and Harmful
This adapted excerpt is from Dr. Scott W. Atlas’ bestselling book, A Plague Upon Our House, published by Bombardier. By…
The Shanghai Catastrophe: Lockdown Ideology at Its Most Extreme
Highlight the hundreds of millions of victims of communism, and its advocates are known to try to rebut the evidence…
The China Model Unravels in Shanghai
At the end of the Cold War, the end-of-history theory was that every country in the world that desired prosperity…
Stop Using the Phrase Vaccine Hesitancy
An unsavoury aspect of the Covid-19 response has been the stigmatization of people for various “normal” things: meeting friends, hugging…
The Worship of Zero
The optimal amount of any “bad” (e.g., crime, cancer) is very, very seldom zero. This is because the marginal cost…
The Ins and Outs of Covid Vaccine Safety
At the time of FDA approval for any vaccine, it is impossible to know whether it causes rare, unexpected serious…
How Germany’s Crazy New Rules Punish Natural Immunity
In what must be one of the most mind-bending public health measures adopted anywhere in the world during the entire…
Covid Zero Transitions to Covid Everyone
Each week comes with more announcements that, despite doing everything right, I or someone close to me got Covid-19. From…
Covidians and the Coin Shortage
You have surely seen the signs. They are all over the country. “Please use exact change. We face a coin…
Newsom’s Vaccine Mandate Gets Worse
Considering that Governor Gavin Newsom has decreed that all children in California get vaxxed, their parents in California might wonder…
The Anatomy of Big Pharma’s Political Reach
After graduating from Columbia University with a chemical engineering degree, my grandfather went on to work for Pfizer for almost…
The Hypocrisy of Medical Experts
On the one hand, there are many biomedical faculty who are passionately arguing why 2-4 year olds should be forced…
Up From Pandemic Exclusion
During the past few months, I have contemplated the situation that people like me face. The differently abled deal with…
How Mitigation Caused Carnage: Interview with Knut Wittkowski
Knut Wittkowski, PhD, is currently CEO of ASDERA and formerly a Rockefeller University researcher in biostatistics and epidemiology. He was…
What’s Going On In China: Interview with Michael Senger
Michael Senger, attorney and author of Snake Oil, has led the way in drawing attention to the role of the…
The Global March of Folly
Throughout the pandemic, the media have eagerly compared Covid statistics between different countries. But such comparisons are often deceptive. Take,…
Can We Please Stop Demonizing the “Unvaccinated?”
When the Covid vaccines first came out, I thought everyone should get at least one shot. My belief was based…
Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors?
A remarkable and truth-telling post appeared over the weekend from the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Despite…
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”…