Brownstone Category
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…
“Half the Population Could Die!”: The Great Disease Panic of 2005-06
People might think that disease panic plus extreme actions by governments are new, perhaps because the virus in question is…
A Caste System Threatens the West
If you test positive or refuse to be tested at all in New Zealand, prepare to be shipped out to…
The CDC Alone Is Regulating Rental Markets
So much went wrong last year that it was hard to keep up. It was like being pounded daily by…
The New Segregationism
Walking through several airports to catch planes this season – they are packed with people – I stepped on hundreds…
They Considered and Rejected Pandemic Closures in 1957
The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020. It killed…
What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar
I’ve heard the following question seemingly thousands of times over the last year: “Why did they do this to us?” …
The CDC Is a Threat to Science
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the astonishing shift from the CDC on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. It…
How to Account for the CDC’s New Mask Advisory?
The crazy, convoluted, mixed up messaging from the CDC – it’s been this way from the beginning of the pandemic…
A Short History of the Great Barrington Declaration
Laura Ingraham on her Fox television show in July 2021 correctly celebrated the re-opening of the US economy, so long…
Rock Climbers, Skaters, and Risk Assessment
We all inhabit a variety of subcultures in life – sports, religion, music, other hobbies – so we cannot be…
Lockdown Ideology Originated in 2006 Under George W. Bush
Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown…
Virus Control Is the New Feudalism
On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to…