Brownstone Category
This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It
From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish Flu…
The Age of Experts
“In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.” ~ Albert Camus Once upon a time – and…
Lockdowns Shredded the Social Contract: Interview with Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta, epidemiologist at Oxford University and a prolific historian and novelist, and a contributor at Brownstone Institute, speaks to…
The Urge to Shame, Purge, and Exclude Diminishes Ourselves
Sally had drawn a Confederate flag picture on the cover of her writing journal that sat on her desk. She…
People of Shanghai Forced Into Hard Lockdown
Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this…
The Expendables: The Biopolitics of Human Sacrifice
There is a hospital in downtown Vancouver called St. Paul’s, which, for those of a certain age, is reminiscent of…
Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing
Last week, medical journalist Katherine Eban posted at Vanity Fair the results of a long and detailed investigation into the…
How Signaling Turns Virtue Into Vice
In decades hence, historians will no doubt identify plenty of cultural developments that defined our age. Perhaps the most obvious…
A Physician’s Plea for Exemption: Full Text
Over the past 10 years I have worked as a board-certified Emergency Physician in Louisiana. Shortly after the Pfizer mRNA…
The Cancellation of Tchaikovsky
I have an old LP on the turntable now, a 1985 Berlin Philharmonic performance of Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture. Recorded almost…