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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…
Biden Administration Pushes Mandate Despite Court and OSHA
The Biden White House is demanding that American businesses comply with a vaccine edict that profoundly affects the lives of…
Media Pushes Mass Confusion over Cause and Effect
What if I told you that this morning I made a cup of green tea and, sure enough, it started…
How Fanatics Took Over the World
Early in the pandemic, I had been furiously writing articles about lockdowns. My phone rang with a call from a…
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…