Brownstone Category

Part of the astonishing power of Noam Chomsky’s 1967 essay The Responsibility of Intellectuals (New York Review of Books) was…

Amidst dark times – a New York Times columnist has called this the “dark century” but he is at a…

With the world reopening, and even US blue states and cities repealing mandates, how optimistic should we be? A little…

When I was a kid — and the same with my parents when they were young — you could count…

In late January, the CDC published a report that made what might have been regarded as a shocking claim. If…

Fifteen years ago, writers schooled in computer science began to imagine various totalitarian schemes for pandemic control. Experienced public health…

With pandemic controls gradually ending, many people have called for some kind of justice to be realized: investigations on the…

All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and…

If there is a historical precedent for the truckers’ revolt in Canada, and the populist protests in so many other…

Just a few days ago, I linked to an epic article in the history of the pandemic response. It was…

The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are…

The national press barely covered the anti-mandate, anti-lockdown rally in D.C (January 23, 2022), and when they did, they mostly…

By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument…

Another day in our strange times: the CDC has finally found a kind word to say about natural immunity. You…

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

We’ll be putting together the timeline of this disaster for many years to come. It all comes down to those…

Jeremy Farrar is a former professor at Oxford University and the head of the Wellcome Trust, an extremely influential non-government…

Watching Songbird (2020) was a delight.  Wait, wrong word.  It was chilling, remarkable, stunning, revealing, and terrifying in strange ways.…

In defense of regulatory mandates during oral arguments, the following words were spoken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “Why…

This morning I listened to the oral arguments in the case of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates as enforced by…

It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new censorships, admissions,…

Every sick child, and probably every adult at some point, asks that existential question: why am I suffering?  No answer…

For nearly two years, we’ve wondered how this will end. In retrospect, the clue is in how it began.  The…

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

At the CVS down the street, the lines are very long to buy home Covid testing kits, $24 a pop,…

Those weeks following the release of the Great Barrington Declaration did feel odd.  On the good side, medical doctors, scientists,…

The “Pledge of Allegiance” when I was a kid was just a series of sounds we would make to start…

It’s a good call for Time Magazine: it made Elon Musk the person of the year. It’s actually even a…

It’s bad enough that we are experiencing the worst inflation in most people’s lifetimes. It’s happening during a tremendous shortage…

The New York Times bears heaps of responsibility for the initial lockdowns. On February 28, 2020, the paper published a…