Brownstone Category
Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up
A lawsuit against the federal government – Anthony Fauci in particular – from the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana has…
Frankenstein Was the Foreshadowing
Two years before lockdowns, the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, about which a wonderful movie…
The Return of Carl Schmitt and His Scheme for Regime Longevity
The message and optics of Joe Biden’s address from September 1, 2022, were startling in our supposedly enlightened times. In…
Cold War Nostalgia Explained
The death of Mikhail Gorbachev this week unleashed a wave of nostalgia for simpler and better times. That’s odd, isn’t…
US Life Expectancy Down Three Years in Two Years
Jared Kushner had not yet read the news most likely. He was just telling an interviewer that he is working…
Social Distancing Was Supposed to Be Forever
By April 2020, two months into the lockdowns, eminent Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben had put his finger on a point…
Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight!
The legend is that patents are a just reward for new inventions. The reality is that they are government grants…
Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown
The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in…
How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?
The 1998 movie Enemy of the State starring Gene Hackman and Will Smith seemed like fiction at the time. Why…
How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It
Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power…