Brownstone Category
Lockdowns Codified a Caste System
The use of the term “frontline” as an adjective dates only from 1915. The application was military. In the Great…
The Polio Pandemic of 1949-52: No Closures, No Restrictions
World War II had ended four years earlier and the U.S. was trying to return to peace and prosperity. Price…
Science Denied: The Biden Vaccine Mandate
President Biden has decided to go hard on the virus. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Sadly for him, those tiny…
The Trauma of Our Lives and What To Do about It: Review and Interview with Gigi Foster
The number one obligation of any intellectual or concerned citizen today is to make sense of the last year and…
The Fall of Intellectual Heroism
Professor Noam Chomsky has always been for me something of an intellectual hero, and not because I agreed with all…
Racial Segregation and Vaccine Passports: Ominous Parallels
There are periods in American history when a scientifically based frenzy sweeps all other considerations before it. Values like equality,…
The World Health Organization Oversold the Vaccine and Deprecated Natural Immunity
A strange feature of rhetoric during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that came to public notice in early 2020 was the odd…
Supreme Court Finally Curbs CDC’s Total Power
It took a year and a half but the deed is finally done. In a 6-3 decision, the highest court…
Plexiglass Nation
This past weekend I traveled around a bit, hopping from place to place, getting to know the new America. As…
Intellectual Courage Is as Essential as it Is Rare
These two years have felt like the “worst of times,” in Dickens’ phrase, but the 20th century saw other terrible…