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February 9, 2022

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…

February 3, 2022

The Power of Protest 

All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and…

January 30, 2022

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…

January 28, 2022

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…

January 27, 2022

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…

January 25, 2022

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…

January 23, 2022

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…

January 21, 2022

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…

January 19, 2022

The Joker: A Premonition

It was two years and a few months ago – only a few months before lockdowns – that I dragged…

January 15, 2022

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…

January 13, 2022

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…

January 11, 2022

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.…

January 9, 2022

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…

January 7, 2022

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…

January 3, 2022

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,…

December 30, 2021

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…

December 27, 2021

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…

December 25, 2021

Slouching Toward Endemicity

Is that the sound of normalcy I’m hearing out there? Ever more authors and sources admitting that the virus is…

December 22, 2021

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,…

December 19, 2021

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,…

December 18, 2021

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…

December 14, 2021

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…

December 13, 2021

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…

December 12, 2021

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…

December 9, 2021

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…

December 5, 2021

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.…

December 2, 2021

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…

November 29, 2021

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…

November 28, 2021

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…

November 27, 2021

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…