Brownstone Category

November 19, 2021

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…

November 19, 2021

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…

November 15, 2021

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…

November 12, 2021

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…

November 9, 2021

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…

November 6, 2021

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…

October 30, 2021

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…

October 29, 2021

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…

October 22, 2021

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,…

October 20, 2021

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…

October 16, 2021

The Truth About Tyranny

In the simple model of tyranny we learned as school kids, there is a bad guy on top, or perhaps…

October 15, 2021

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…

October 13, 2021

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…

October 9, 2021

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…

October 6, 2021

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…

October 5, 2021

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…

October 4, 2021

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,…

October 4, 2021

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…

October 4, 2021

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,…

October 2, 2021

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…

October 2, 2021

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…

October 2, 2021

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.…

September 28, 2021

The Purges Have Begun

How this began: The virus was here (the US) already for months from 2019 and life went on normally.  Once…

September 25, 2021

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.…

September 23, 2021

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…

September 21, 2021

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…

September 21, 2021

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…

September 14, 2021

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…

September 12, 2021

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…

September 12, 2021

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…