Brownstone Category

May 18, 2022

The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favor Lockdowns

The World Health Organisation intends to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official…

May 18, 2022

Elites Meet to Plan Your Health: The Role of the Council on Foreign Relations

The grisly Shanghai lockdown, now entering its eighth week, has forced a reckoning among members of Democratic America’s expert class—even…

May 18, 2022

The FDA/WIC Role in the Baby Formula Debacle

There has by now been an acute shortage of infant formula in the United States for months. Despite government claims…

May 18, 2022

What Does the Pandemic Treaty Do?

Social media has been abuzz with terrifying news about a new Pandemic Treaty (officially the “Zero draft report of the Working…

May 17, 2022

The Covid Stories Project

Finally, lawmakers in DC are right about something. Congress has realized that we need to preserve our memories of the…

May 17, 2022

Lockdowns, Closures, and the Loss of Moral Clarity

Last weekend, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people…

May 17, 2022

Australia: Champion Covidiot

Over the weekend, the New York Times carried a story headlined “How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed…

May 16, 2022

The Case Against the CDC as We Know It

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was founded in 1946 as a backwater quasi-governmental agency with a negligible budget and a handful…

May 16, 2022

Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health?

The dramatic shortage of baby formula underscores the point: a functioning economy is essential to public health. It’s the same…

May 16, 2022

Congress and the Pandemic Response: An Interview with Thomas Massie

Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the rare example of a statesman in the US who saw the pandemic and…