Brownstone Category

August 17, 2022

The CDC Failed, So Spin It Off and Make It More Powerful?

The failure of the CDC to manage Covid-19 was baked in from the first moments of its response. A government…

August 14, 2022

A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal 

It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years.…

August 11, 2022

Did Lockdowns Turn Americans Into Lazy Bums?

It looks as if we can add another line to the long list of lockdown harms. Sloth.  This explains so…

August 9, 2022

Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril 

The FBI has raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida and opened a private safe, hanging around for hours looking for…

August 5, 2022

Just How Healthy Are These Labor Markets?

The news of the falling unemployment and the rise in total payrolls in July 2022 came as a welcome relief…

August 3, 2022

Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO 

Many of us with a libertarian frame of mind presume as a matter of theory that the interests of business…

August 1, 2022

The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression 

If you were on vacation last week, good for you. You missed one of Congress’s greatest-ever scams. They just approved…

July 26, 2022

The Day Anthony Fauci Wrecked American Freedom

Fears of a virus from China had been rising for two months in the spring of 2020. The White House…

July 25, 2022

Dictatorship Chic 

In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, dictatorship is the end…

July 22, 2022

Mozart, Mediocrity, and the Administrative State 

The 1984 movie Amadeus is a great achievement in its genre because it actually puts the creative process of the…