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Justice Department Appeals to Get Masks Back on Airlines, Buses, and Trains
I am not a gambling man. As an investor, financial data analyst, and rock climber, I may appear on the…
Authoritarian Pandemic Policies: A Reckoning
With the Corona crisis another chapter was written in the biopolitical book of life. During the last two years, we…
When Will Our Sense of Security Return?
When faced with incoming disasters, we undergo personal status checks to evaluate our risk of making it through unscathed. If…
Inflationary Pressure Is Worse than They Say
We are apparently back in the spend-your-way-to-prosperity mode. Last week Wall Street greeted the “strong” April PCE number with a…
How the Pandemic Response Changed My Thinking
Looking back to the “before times” – meaning before the middle of March 2020 – we were all quite naive about…
Ethnocentrism and Political Intolerance: A Two Year Retrospective on the Pandemic Response
We all make the mistake of thinking “Americans” have the same culture, the same beliefs & values. However, while united…
Why Did US Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model?
In Hannah Arendt’s report on Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, Arendt concludes that Eichmann was…
Updated Johns Hopkins Study on Lockdowns Debunks the Fact Checkers
Last January, the John Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise published a working…
Mask Mandates Back in Philadelphia
I live in Philadelphia, now officially proven to be one of the dumbest cities ever, as noted by Brownstone contributor…
After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated
Anyone who imagines that the suspension of Covid-related measures in much of Europe means that those measures, and hence the…