Brownstone Category
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…
Racial Segregation and Vaccine Passports: Ominous Parallels
There are periods in American history when a scientifically based frenzy sweeps all other considerations before it. Values like equality,…
The World Health Organization Oversold the Vaccine and Deprecated Natural Immunity
A strange feature of rhetoric during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that came to public notice in early 2020 was the odd…
Supreme Court Finally Curbs CDC’s Total Power
It took a year and a half but the deed is finally done. In a 6-3 decision, the highest court…
Plexiglass Nation
This past weekend I traveled around a bit, hopping from place to place, getting to know the new America. As…
Intellectual Courage Is as Essential as it Is Rare
These two years have felt like the “worst of times,” in Dickens’ phrase, but the 20th century saw other terrible…
Biden’s Other Unwinnable War
Joe Biden’s speech following the Afghanistan debacle made for compelling television for one main reason: here is a government official…
The Respected Scientists Who Pushed for Alcohol Prohibition in 1920
Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it will…
Comedy and Tragedy in Two Americas
In Dallas, Texas, life on the weekend felt completely normal, even better than ever. The city was booming with life,…
The Totalitarian Ideology of Lockdownism
Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision…