Brownstone Category
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…
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…
The Fact-Checking Game
Social and political elites have long relied on euphemism to make their schemes of social control more palatable to those…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
Vaccine Fanaticism Fuels Vaccine Skepticism
The development of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the few successes during a pandemic that saw major failures in public health strategy…
Travel Blocked from Europe: The Second Anniversary
At some point, we need a clear timeline based on what we know so far from books, FOIA requests, and…
The Failure of Track-and-Trace: Interview with Jay Bhattacharya
From early in the pandemic, once the confusion over testing had been sorted out, there seemed to be universal agreement…
The CDC: Source of Misinformation
One lasting casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic is lost trust in public health. The CDC recently lifted their recommendation for…
What Happens When Cases Rise?
Right now COVID cases are down, everyone is thinking about Ukraine, and restrictions are falling, but it won’t stay that…
Twitter Demanded that I Tell a Lie
This is the most censorious time of my life. Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not…
It’s Time to Talk about Elephants
For the past two years the world has converged on a single goal: slowing the spread of Covid-19. We have…
How Seventy Years of Progress Came to an End
The new inflation numbers are out. It’s 8 percent on consumer prices, or so they say. Not even that is…
How Seventy Years of Progress Came to an End
The new inflation numbers are out. It’s 8 percent on consumer prices, or so they say. Not even that is…
What the Truckers Want: An Explanation for the Confused
There are many legitimate reasons to be cynical in this world, but I’ve decided to assume that my fellow Americans…
What the Truckers Want: An Explanation for the Confused
There are many legitimate reasons to be cynical in this world, but I’ve decided to assume that my fellow Americans…
Freedom Is Our Birthright, Not Dependent On Medical Status
I received a request to sign a petition last week, already signed by 17,000 medical practitioners, many of whom have…