Brownstone Category
The Treason of the Experts: Foreword
Professor Thomas Harrington’s primary field of study is Hispanic culture and history, with a focus on Catalonian language, history and…
The Problem of Lost Knowledge: Antibiotic Edition
The first evidence of lost knowledge in 2020 concerned natural immunity. How in the world did it come to be…
America Will Never Give Up Its Ideals
Two years ago, major American cities were segregated by vaccine status. Mask mandates delineated safe and unsafe. Signs told us…
The Freezer-Truck Canard
These are the days of grasping for excuses. In sector after sector, leaders who gave us lockdowns and all that…
Top Ten Quotes from the NYT Fauci Interview
Billed as the most in-depth interview yet, the New York Times published a very long piece that contains some rather…
Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything
The other day, I listened to as much National Public Radio as I could stand and one point stood out…
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…