Brownstone Category
Anthony Fauci’s Very Bad Week
It’s not been Anthony Fauci’s best week. Forever intent on managing his image and public opinion on the pandemic response,…
At the White House, March 10, 2020, Reconstructed
We still don’t know precisely what caused Donald Trump to flip in his position on the coronavirus. On March 9,…
Are We Facing Lockdowns 2.0?
National Public Radio was in a frenzy this morning but it felt like the movie Groundhog Day: they were spreading…
The Great Game of Let’s Pretend
Two nights ago was supposed to be a night of reckoning and truth. The intrepid and independent journalist Tucker Carlson…
The Questions Crying Out for Answers
The conspiracy of silence is obvious. Both political parties like it. The media likes it too because it was a…
How Have You Changed?
The last three and a half years have been times of enormous upheaval. It has affected politics, economics, culture, media,…
This Was Tucker Carlson’s “Greatest Public Mistake”
A new biography of Tucker Carlson offers a very interesting look at the intellectual odyssey of the most popular commentator…
The Money Trails of the Pandemic Planning Racket
The Justice Department has dismissed all charges related to campaign finance leveled against Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and CEO…
The Great Cloud of Disrepute
A dark cloud of disrepute hangs over all official institutions in the developed world. It affects governments most but also…
The Free Speech Scare
It was a strange experience watching the House hearing in which Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was testifying. The topic was…
The Intellectual Roots of Techno-Primitivism
The assault on enterprise of the last few years – meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones…
A Genealogy of Corporatism
It’s not capitalism. It’s not socialism. The new word we are hearing these days is the right word: corporatism. It…
Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns
It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of…
New CDC Director Is Another Lockdowner
In the old Soviet Union, citizens were not required to be a member of the Communist Party. But if you…
Downton Abbey, the Corruption of the Great Families, and the Future of Freedom
For much of Downton Abbey, viewers are treated with glorious eye candy of British aristocratic life in a mighty estate,…
How Lockdowns Bolstered an Industrial Cartel
Among the many grim memories from the depths of lockdowns were boarded up local shops and long lines outside the…
Sorry, This Is Not Going Away
The kids are two years behind in education. Inflation still rages. White-collar jobs are disappearing thanks to the reversal of…
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with…
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…