Brownstone Category
Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting on Existing Covid Vaccines
In a surprising interview, Bill Gates said the following: “We didn’t have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that…
The War We’ve Lived and the Birth of the New
I was in Marshalls yesterday where dystopian vertical boards keep people in checkout lines separated like cattle at a feeding…
The Mandate on Business Intensifies the Crisis
It’s hard to imagine that public confidence in everything could fall further, but it surely will. This past week was…
The Candy Shortage Is But a Sign of Much Worse
This is the first Halloween in my lifetime – and really since World War II when sugar was rationed in the…
Dr. Deborah Birx’s Failed Attempt to Flip the Script
Every report we have, from journalists and from first-hand reports from people who were there, reveal that Dr. Deborah Birx…
Why the Cargo Is Stuck: Letter from a Trucker
In response to my article on the growing goods shortages, I received the following letter, which I found very interesting,…
The Rationing Is Already Here
“Excuse me, sir, do you have pomegranate liqueur?” “I don’t have anything! I can’t get anything! I can’t even get…
The Truth About Tyranny
In the simple model of tyranny we learned as school kids, there is a bad guy on top, or perhaps…
How Close Is Total Social and Economic Collapse?
Economies and societies fall apart slowly, then a bit more, then all at once. We seem to be in the…
Is This Becoming a General Strike?
Never in our lifetimes has a federal mandate created such cultural and economic havoc. Did the Biden administration really imagine…
Labor Markets: Bruised, Battered, and Broken by Lockdowns and Mandates
There were some spooky data points in the latest jobs number. The headline was worrying enough: only 194,000 new jobs…
Biden’s Vaccination Mandate: Where Are the Regulations?
The Human Resource order comes down to you with ferocity: get the vaccine or lose your office access and eventually…
Why Masks? Control, Power, and Revenue
Some people say they don’t mind masks. I do. In regular settings of commercial life, they rob people of their personalities…
Great Barrington Declaration: One Year Later
The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD), authored by Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford, Martin Kulldorff, Harvard University, and Prof. Jay Bhattacharya,…
Harvard Epidemiologist Censored by LinkedIn for Defending Healthcare Jobs
LinkedIn distinguished itself in the social-media market for its focus on professionals. The idea was to develop a digital network…
The Corruption of My Liberal Tribe
I have always been a liberal, left-leaning in my politics, a devout adherent to principles such as liberty, free speech,…
Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity
Among many surprising developments during this pandemic, the most stunning has been the questioning of naturally acquired immunity after a…
Hurting Children to Protect Them
“Those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the…
Rand Paul and Xavier Becerra Square Off on Natural Immunity, with Devastating Results
Xavier Becerra is an American politician and lawyer and is currently Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.…
The Purges Have Begun
How this began: The virus was here (the US) already for months from 2019 and life went on normally. Once…
Only Freedom Can Fix a Broken Australia
I’ve rarely been as charmed by a country or culture as I have been in my many visits to Australia.…
Copycat Governments: How the World Locked Down
A continuing mystery is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have…
The Wrecking of New York City: Accident or Design?
To my mind, the New York Times bears a huge part of the responsibility for the catastrophic policy response to…
These Travel Restrictions Must End
On matters epidemiological, I’m a dedicated follower of Professor Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, scientist and novelist. It was she…
The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week…
Lockdowns Codified a Caste System
The use of the term “frontline” as an adjective dates only from 1915. The application was military. In the Great…
The Polio Pandemic of 1949-52: No Closures, No Restrictions
World War II had ended four years earlier and the U.S. was trying to return to peace and prosperity. Price…
Science Denied: The Biden Vaccine Mandate
President Biden has decided to go hard on the virus. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Sadly for him, those tiny…
The Trauma of Our Lives and What To Do about It: Review and Interview with Gigi Foster
The number one obligation of any intellectual or concerned citizen today is to make sense of the last year and…
The Fall of Intellectual Heroism
Professor Noam Chomsky has always been for me something of an intellectual hero, and not because I agreed with all…