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The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The…

In the spring of 2020, a deliberately cultivated disease fear swept across the population. Everyone was urged to do everything…

Has the dust settled?  Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in…

On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors…

“Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending…

In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards.…

In the movie Paddington, a bear moves in with a London family. The father of the house is an insurance…

In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time…

My last published book was Liberty or Lockdown, originally printed in September 2020. It was written in a mad fury…

In a lifetime of observing policy controversies and court cases, we’ve never witnessed anything as crucial to the future of…

There was a time. What seemed to be unfolding was a huge intellectual error for the history books. A new…

A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It…

We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told you so.” When in March…

In the first week of March 2020, as news of a virus was everywhere, intellectuals associated with the Yale University…

Under the cover of disease control, most nations in the world have lived through the equivalent of war – never…

The United States has the distinction the world over for being a home to the First Amendment, which guarantees free…

For four years, we’ve carried around a presumption that when lockdowns came, most people went along out of fear of…

Journalist David Zweig spotted an interesting paper released by the British Medical Journal. It concerns the effectiveness of HEPA filters…

Donald Trump will certainly get the Republican nomination. With that the issue of truth and honesty about what happened on…

It’s helpful to think of a Covid experience as a never-ending house of horrors, with room after room of scandal…

Do you think we need a Pentagon for public health to wage war on new pathogens? Not likely, and that…

Of all living things, only humans seem to have the drive and capacity for documentation, record-keeping, and writing for the…

For four years now, any talk of allowing society to function in the event of a pandemic has called forth…

One might suppose that the voices of mainstream media and elite culture in general would be more self-critical than they…

Think of this. In the time since the Covid crisis has passed, no aspect of any federal power that was…

Two years ago, attorney and Brownstone Fellow Bobbie Anne Flower Cox took note of the New York State executive order…

An intriguing controversy hit much of the civilized planet in the second half of the 19th century. How would we…

Tucker Carlson has conducted a brilliant interview with biologist and podcaster Bret Weinstein, who has been on the Covid case…

The train wasn’t scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the…

[This is the introduction to Conformity Colleges: The Destruction of Intellectual Creativity and Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R.…