Brownstone Category
The White House Makes Good on Its Antitrust Threats
On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors…
Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
“Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending…
How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards.…
In Health Care, We Are Flying Blind
In the movie Paddington, a bear moves in with a London family. The father of the house is an insurance…
The End of the End of Ideology
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time…
Life After Lockdown: Introduction
My last published book was Liberty or Lockdown, originally printed in September 2020. It was written in a mad fury…
Free Speech on Trial
In a lifetime of observing policy controversies and court cases, we’ve never witnessed anything as crucial to the future of…
A Digital Coup d’Etat
There was a time. What seemed to be unfolding was a huge intellectual error for the history books. A new…
Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom
A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It…
The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case of EVs
We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told you so.” When in March…