Brownstone Category
Is the Overton Window Real, Imagined, or Constructed?
The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it…
What Happened to Bitcoin?
Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before.…
Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?
My first article on the coming backlash – admittedly wildly optimistic – went to print April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of…
Is Inflation Harmless?
The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The…
The CDC Intervened in Voting Protocols
In the spring of 2020, a deliberately cultivated disease fear swept across the population. Everyone was urged to do everything…
Four Years Later
Has the dust settled? Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in…
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…
Intellectuals for Sale
In the first week of March 2020, as news of a virus was everywhere, intellectuals associated with the Yale University…
The Forgetting Is Mandatory
Under the cover of disease control, most nations in the world have lived through the equivalent of war – never…
Today’s Censorship Is Personal
The United States has the distinction the world over for being a home to the First Amendment, which guarantees free…
Maybe More People Objected Than We Knew
For four years, we’ve carried around a presumption that when lockdowns came, most people went along out of fear of…
Room Filtration Didn’t Work Either
Journalist David Zweig spotted an interesting paper released by the British Medical Journal. It concerns the effectiveness of HEPA filters…
Will We Ever Get the Truth?
Donald Trump will certainly get the Republican nomination. With that the issue of truth and honesty about what happened on…
To Get US Residency Requires the Covid Jab
It’s helpful to think of a Covid experience as a never-ending house of horrors, with room after room of scandal…
The Totalitarian Mind of Donald G. McNeil
Do you think we need a Pentagon for public health to wage war on new pathogens? Not likely, and that…
The Heroism of Guido d’Arrezo
Of all living things, only humans seem to have the drive and capacity for documentation, record-keeping, and writing for the…
The Case of Typhoid Mary
For four years now, any talk of allowing society to function in the event of a pandemic has called forth…
Just How Alienated Are Our Masters and Commanders?
One might suppose that the voices of mainstream media and elite culture in general would be more self-critical than they…
Three Books to End the Silence
Think of this. In the time since the Covid crisis has passed, no aspect of any federal power that was…
Are There US Quarantine Camps Right Now?
Two years ago, attorney and Brownstone Fellow Bobbie Anne Flower Cox took note of the New York State executive order…
Would You Have Resisted the Imposition of Time Zones?
An intriguing controversy hit much of the civilized planet in the second half of the 19th century. How would we…