Brownstone Category

March 26, 2023

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…

March 23, 2023

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…

March 17, 2023

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…

March 14, 2023

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…

March 10, 2023

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…

March 8, 2023

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…

March 7, 2023

Theorists vs. Practitioners

Just this weekend, I spoke at one of my favorite venues, the Liberty Forum in New Hampshire, which is an…

March 2, 2023

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…

February 26, 2023

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…

February 25, 2023

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.…

February 15, 2023

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,…

February 11, 2023

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…

February 10, 2023

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…

February 5, 2023

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…

January 30, 2023

Eugenics, Then and Now 

The catastrophic Covid response has many people wondering whether we should really turn over public policy — which deals with…

January 28, 2023

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…

January 21, 2023

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…

January 16, 2023

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…

January 11, 2023

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…

January 9, 2023

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…

January 8, 2023

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…

January 6, 2023

End These Travel Restrictions Now

Once again, the US government has extended the vaccination-only policy for foreign travelers, this time to April and probably later.…

January 1, 2023

Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed

Anthony Fauci is finally gone from his government perch. Let us recall that it was he who set this calamity…

December 30, 2022

Forty Years of Freedom Slipped Away So Quickly 

Was it all just an illusion? An illusion that lasted forty years?  Surely not but something went very wrong, perhaps…

December 26, 2022

How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives 

From the beginning of the Covid panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less…

December 25, 2022

De Las Casas and the 500-Year Struggle for Liberty 

Spending the holiday week in gorgeous Mexico City has sent my mind reeling with reflection on the great struggle of…

December 22, 2022

What Is Crimson Contagion?

The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public health agencies, not to mention infectious disease doctors.…

December 18, 2022

We Are Still Locked Down

Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents…

December 15, 2022

The SBF Scandal: The Players and the Money

The complexities of the FTX scandal with Sam Bankman-Fried at the helm boggles the mind. Unlike the Madoff scandal, which…

December 13, 2022

How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker 

Early during lockdowns in 2020, when the whole of the media marched in lockstep with the most appalling reach of…