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Reparations for the Business Victims of Lockdowns
With pandemic controls gradually ending, many people have called for some kind of justice to be realized: investigations on the…
The Power of Protest
All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and…
Now Is the Time for Mass Resignations from Within the Ruling Class
If there is a historical precedent for the truckers’ revolt in Canada, and the populist protests in so many other…
Kulldorff Deleted: Famed Epidemiologist and Early Opponent of Lockdowns Banned by LinkedIn
Just a few days ago, I linked to an epic article in the history of the pandemic response. It was…
Justin Trudeau Ducks the Great Trucker Revolt
The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are…
The Reactionary Political Ethos of Lockdowns and Mandates
The national press barely covered the anti-mandate, anti-lockdown rally in D.C (January 23, 2022), and when they did, they mostly…
The DC Rally and the Rise of the Resistance
By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument…
Is Natural Immunity a Case of Lost Knowledge?
Another day in our strange times: the CDC has finally found a kind word to say about natural immunity. You…
The Joker: A Premonition
It was two years and a few months ago – only a few months before lockdowns – that I dragged…
What Might Have Been: Calm, Protection, and Care
We’ll be putting together the timeline of this disaster for many years to come. It all comes down to those…
The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins
Jeremy Farrar is a former professor at Oxford University and the head of the Wellcome Trust, an extremely influential non-government…
Songbird: The Dystopian Film that Became Real
Watching Songbird (2020) was a delight. Wait, wrong word. It was chilling, remarkable, stunning, revealing, and terrifying in strange ways.…
Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?
In defense of regulatory mandates during oral arguments, the following words were spoken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “Why…
Get the Courts Out of Science
This morning I listened to the oral arguments in the case of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates as enforced by…
They Said They Would Slow the Spread
It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new censorships, admissions,…
The Psychological Cruelty of Denying Natural immunity
Every sick child, and probably every adult at some point, asks that existential question: why am I suffering? No answer…
The Zoom Class Gets Covid
For nearly two years, we’ve wondered how this will end. In retrospect, the clue is in how it began. The…
Slouching Toward Endemicity
Is that the sound of normalcy I’m hearing out there? Ever more authors and sources admitting that the virus is…
How to Create a Health Care Crisis
At the CVS down the street, the lines are very long to buy home Covid testing kits, $24 a pop,…
Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun
Those weeks following the release of the Great Barrington Declaration did feel odd. On the good side, medical doctors, scientists,…
What Happened to Liberty and Justice for All?
The “Pledge of Allegiance” when I was a kid was just a series of sounds we would make to start…
Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
It’s a good call for Time Magazine: it made Elon Musk the person of the year. It’s actually even a…
Their Schools Shut, So Why Not Let Teens Work?
It’s bad enough that we are experiencing the worst inflation in most people’s lifetimes. It’s happening during a tremendous shortage…
Am I Detecting a Shift at the New York Times?
The New York Times bears heaps of responsibility for the initial lockdowns. On February 28, 2020, the paper published a…
Who Will Be Held Responsible for this Devastation?
If the pandemic policy response had taken the form of mere advice, we would not be in the midst of…
Biden’s Throat Frog Hints at the Coming Normalcy
What happened to Joe Biden could have happened to anyone. In fact, it happens all the time. Throughout human history.…
Is YouTube Now Presuming to be in Charge of Science?
Courts around the country are striking down vaccine mandates and even Covid restrictions in general. Protests against both have erupted…
Remember Brownstone Institute on Giving Tuesday
It’s “Giving Tuesday” and a reminder that the Brownstone Institute cannot and would not exist without reader support. Will you…
The Moral Panic Over Absinthe Lasted 100 Years
Last week, I showed up to a nice party with a bottle of Absinthe. I like the stuff but I…
A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats: Scott Atlas’s Masterpiece on the Covid Disaster
I’m a voracious reader of Covid books but nothing could have prepared me for Scott Atlas’s A Plague Upon Our…