Brownstone Category
The Joker: A Premonition
It was two years and a few months ago – only a few months before lockdowns – that I dragged…
What Might Have Been: Calm, Protection, and Care
We’ll be putting together the timeline of this disaster for many years to come. It all comes down to those…
The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins
Jeremy Farrar is a former professor at Oxford University and the head of the Wellcome Trust, an extremely influential non-government…
Songbird: The Dystopian Film that Became Real
Watching Songbird (2020) was a delight. Wait, wrong word. It was chilling, remarkable, stunning, revealing, and terrifying in strange ways.…
Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?
In defense of regulatory mandates during oral arguments, the following words were spoken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “Why…
Get the Courts Out of Science
This morning I listened to the oral arguments in the case of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates as enforced by…
They Said They Would Slow the Spread
It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new censorships, admissions,…
The Psychological Cruelty of Denying Natural immunity
Every sick child, and probably every adult at some point, asks that existential question: why am I suffering? No answer…
The Zoom Class Gets Covid
For nearly two years, we’ve wondered how this will end. In retrospect, the clue is in how it began. The…
Slouching Toward Endemicity
Is that the sound of normalcy I’m hearing out there? Ever more authors and sources admitting that the virus is…