Brownstone Category
The New Segregationism
Walking through several airports to catch planes this season – they are packed with people – I stepped on hundreds…
They Considered and Rejected Pandemic Closures in 1957
The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020. It killed…

What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar
I’ve heard the following question seemingly thousands of times over the last year: “Why did they do this to us?” …
The CDC Is a Threat to Science
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the astonishing shift from the CDC on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. It…
How to Account for the CDC’s New Mask Advisory?
The crazy, convoluted, mixed up messaging from the CDC – it’s been this way from the beginning of the pandemic…
A Short History of the Great Barrington Declaration
Laura Ingraham on her Fox television show in July 2021 correctly celebrated the re-opening of the US economy, so long…
Rock Climbers, Skaters, and Risk Assessment
We all inhabit a variety of subcultures in life – sports, religion, music, other hobbies – so we cannot be…
Lockdown Ideology Originated in 2006 Under George W. Bush
Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown…
Virus Control Is the New Feudalism
On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to…