Brownstone Category
What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential
In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I’ve only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction…
What the Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about the Ruling Class
What were they thinking? How did someone believe that making “trans woman” Dylan Mulvaney the icon of a Bud Light…
Albert Camus on the Denial of Freedom
Jan Jakielek of the Epoch Times recently conducted an in-depth interview with Robert Kennedy, Jr., and asked him in particular…
Twitter’s Extremely Dangerous Attack on Substack
Americans woke up on Good Friday 2023 – the first Easter weekend in three years that held out the possibility…
Don’t Let Them Memory-Hole This
On a video podcast the other day, I made reference to the lockdown orders of March 2020. The host turned…
They Hit the Pause Button and the Music Stopped
In the great search for metaphors to justify the largest-scale violations of human rights in our lifetimes, the disease managers…
The Emergency Is Not Over
The US House and Senate have voted by a supermajority for an early end to the National Emergency that Donald…
The Reopening Racket
At this time, three years ago, the nation was in shock and shambles, with businesses and churches closed, Main Street…
The Decline in Patriotism
The Wall Street Journal has conducted a poll with the most interesting results. From 1998 to the present, the percentage…
What Happened When the Georgia Governor Tried to Open the State?
The journalists have fallen down on the job. To say the least. Three years ago, all normal rights and liberties…
How They Convinced Trump to Lock Down
An enduring mystery for three years is how Donald Trump came to be the president who shut down American society…
The Day the Sunrise Was a Curse
March 17, 2020, was the first day of the end of civilized life, the one for which Western peoples had…
Was Trump Tricked Into Lockdowns or Not?
There are enduring mysteries surrounding the White House decision to issue a lockdown edict on March 16, 2020. The edict…
The Sanitation Power Does Not Permission Tyranny
What do you think of when you think of sanitation? Perhaps the Sanitarian Department, which picks up trash. That’s what…
Are You Being Frightened Not to Travel?
In a blaring headline and an email alert, the forever fear-mongering New York Times has amplified a terrifying story from…
Theorists vs. Practitioners
Just this weekend, I spoke at one of my favorite venues, the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire, which is an…
Fauci Wanted Universal Human Separation Forever
While millions were locked down, forbidden from going to events or even church, and the schools and arts were shut…
Woody Harrelson Demonstrates the Pain of Truth
In the course of an otherwise unmeaningful monologue on Saturday Night Live, Woody Harrelson let go with a remarkable theory…
A Contagion of Cowardice
Jordan Peterson’s interview with Jay Bhattacharya is one of the more insightful conversations to come out of the post-pandemic period.…
Three Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?
Three years ago this month, a very small group of highly guarded ruling-class people from the UK, US, and Europe,…
American Public Schools, RIP
Many of the bizarre features of the pandemic response can be explained by industrial self-interest, graft, power lust, confusion, and…
The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking
The American Medical Association (AMA) urges physicians to promote COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters. The AMA even supplies members with social media talking points and…
Covid and the Three Tests of Compliance
Jesus in the wilderness faced three temptations from the Devil himself: material comfort, fame, and power. Needless to say, he…
Eugenics, Then and Now
The catastrophic Covid response has many people wondering whether we should really turn over public policy — which deals with…
The Sovietization of Medical Care
My good friend professor Yuri Maltsev died this week and I’ve spent these mourning days recalling our conversations. He was…
My First Anti-Lockdown Article from 2020
These days, many people are justifying the egregious government response to the virus based on the claim of ignorance. We…
Human Sacrifice, Then and Now
I’ve spent the last three days in awe of the temples of Teotihuacan, Mexico, which are beyond description in size…
Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something that Does Not Matter
Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it’s been quite a wild ride. Thousands of doctors and scientists have been…
The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns
The latest of the Twitter Files is reported by Alex Berenson, who was granted access to messaging systems from the…
Jordan Peterson: Enemy of the State
The famed psychologist and scholar, and global media personality, Jordan Peterson is being told that he must report to the…