Brownstone Category

March 26, 2022

How Proximity Makes Progressives

Two years of a coronavirus pandemic and the extraordinary responses to it by all kinds of institutions and jurisdictions have…

March 25, 2022

Crowd Creation: A New Political Tool

Put yourself in the mind of a smart, power-hungry politician obsessed with winning, someone with no moral compass. He is…

March 25, 2022

I’ve Lost My Parents, To Covid Brainwashing 

I remember when I was five years old. My cat, Grey Feathers, had been missing for almost two days. I…

March 25, 2022

Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity

Yes, Fauci has never worried about consistency or even contradicting himself one day to the next, often without explanation. Too…

March 24, 2022

How the C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns and Economic War

A while back, corporate America was bending over backwards to appease the Virus Patrol with lockdowns, mandatory masking and threats…

March 24, 2022

The Inflation Disaster Is Collateral Damage from Lockdowns 

The outrageous prices at the grocery store and gas stations – the highest ever recorded and increasing at rates too…

March 23, 2022

The Brutal Politics of Branding

Over the summer, I received an email from “your” Faculty Secretary—as the most pro-administration office-holder in recent memory likes to…

March 23, 2022

How Vaccine Messaging Confused the Public

Pivotal randomized control trials (RCTs) underpinning approval of Covid-19 vaccines did not set out to, and did not, test if…

March 23, 2022

Interview: Students Against Mandates

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Leigh Vossen and Brandon Paradoski Leigh Vossen, President & Founder and Brandon Paradoski, VP & Head of…

March 23, 2022

How the Flu and Covid Shots Are Different

I heard the argument recently that since we accept a yearly flu shot— and some places even mandate it— we…

March 22, 2022

CDC Promotes Another Misleading Mask Study 

The CDC clearly disgraced itself during the pandemic. At this point, that’s not particularly newsworthy — it’s become an expectation…

March 22, 2022

Conviviality: The Alternative to the Administrative State

On 17th February, in an article at Brownstone Institute, David McGrogan described the Trudeau-trucker stand-off as not only ‘the single…

March 22, 2022

Faroe Islands: The Tiny Country that Rejected Lockdowns

Mid-way between Iceland and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are a country of approximately 50,000 people. The Faroe Islands are part…

March 21, 2022

Who Will Support You in a Crisis?

It’s been instructive to see which colleagues from the University of California have (or have not) reached out to support…

March 21, 2022

The Fact-Checking Game

Social and political elites have long relied on euphemism to make their schemes of social control more palatable to those…

March 21, 2022

The Silencing of the Scientists 

Early in the COVID pandemic, Michael Levitt noticed a gradual decay of case growth rates over time in Wuhan, and…

March 20, 2022

Politicians of the World Unite! 

Vladimir Putin has given an address to the Russian nation that urged his country to be patient with the current…

March 20, 2022

Freedom Must Begin at Home 

The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is being declared by most countries in the world at almost the precise 2nd…

March 19, 2022

Anatomy of the Hong Kong Disaster 

It’s hard to believe that after two years of government policies completely failing to prevent the spread of COVID, there…

March 18, 2022

New Hampshire Votes for Pharmaceutical Freedom

The New Hampshire House of Representatives has voted to make Ivermectin available at any pharmacy that wants to distribute this…

March 17, 2022

End All College Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates

It is time to end Covid-19 vaccine mandates for college students. Colleges and universities are beginning to drop masking and…

March 17, 2022

Universities Follow the Politics, Not the Science

At the start of 2022, both Rachel Fulton Brown, an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, and…

March 16, 2022

The Purge: Call Me Ishmael

For the last 27 years I have been a professor at Boston College, teaching a mix of literature and writing…

March 16, 2022

End This Emergency

Along with fellow scholars at the Ethics and Public Policy Center I sent a letter today to Department of Health and Human…

March 16, 2022

The Vindication of D.H. Henderson 

“We were going to invent pandemic planning.”  Those were the words of Dr. Rajeev Venkayya in 2005 when he headed…

March 15, 2022

Have the Children Been Poisoned? 

Increased exposure to toxic substances due to an overuse of ineffective measures like mask mandates, frequent use of hand sanitizers,…

March 15, 2022

The Military’s Abusive Imposition of Mandatory Covid Vaccinations

In the past, the widespread introduction of vaccines has reduced the mortality and morbidity of millions and served as a…

March 14, 2022

Those Who Chose Shaming Over Science

For the first many decades of my life I don’t recall anyone calling me a selfish idiot, much less a…

March 14, 2022

How Public Opinion Ended Covid, and Started the Next Thing

A new poll publicized on Fox News reports that “Most Americans back Russian oil sanctions, even with soaring gas prices.”…

March 14, 2022

War Was Always the Wrong Metaphor

A number of people have said it, but — and I feel it, actually: I’m a wartime president. This is…