Brownstone Category
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…
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…
What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and…
The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning
Last night was quite the ride. Bari Weiss, who left the New York Times in protest against the culture of…
The World According to Mike Pence
I’m mostly interested in Mike Pence’s book So Help Me God for what he says about the experience of Covid…
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Missing Billions for Pandemic Planning
Yes, I watched the appalling scenes of Sam Bankman-Fried’s media tour. He repeatedly returns to the theme of his philanthropy:…
How to Save Your Skin, According to Bankman-Fried and Fauci
We are being gifted with a series of extremely impressive displays of accountability avoidance. They have been virtuosic acts, ones…
The Doctor Who Can Rebuild Trust: Joseph Ladapo
If you are like me, you are exhausted of the lies. Every day seems to bring new revelations about how…
The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
A series of revealing texts and tweets by Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now…
They Will Lock You Down Again
The lords of lockdown barely escaped their worst possible fate, namely that the topic would become the national and international…
Maybe the Fed Too Was Trolled
The Federal Reserve – and central banks the world over – played a crucial role in making lockdowns possible and weaponizing…
The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write
Sometimes, even now, even after writing a book and probably a thousand or more articles on the topic, and following…
Remember Those Who Cannot Speak
Being on the administrative/editorial side of Brownstone has been a serious education in information systems. I don’t mean on a…
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
It’s been more than obvious since April 2020 that lockdowns were far too costly for individuals and society and could…
But Will Elections Change Anything?
It’s coming up in a fortnight. For many people, all their hopes rest on the outcome. I get it because…
The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response
On April 15, 2020, a full month after the President’s fateful news conference that greenlighted lockdowns to be enacted by…
Why Your Mask Came from China
Starting in 2018, President Trump imposed tariffs on trade with China. It was an unusual approach by any postwar standard.…
A Nobel Prize for Moral Hazard
Our times are stuffed with daily ironies all pointing to the same grim reality: the failure of experts, particularly those…
Why Did So Many Intellectuals Refuse to Speak Out?
Think of all the institutions that have marched in lockstep during the dramatic decline in civilization over three years. It’s…
The 70 Seconds that Shook the World
On March 16, 2020, following a long weekend of negotiations and deals about the coronavirus, Donald Trump, Deborah Birx, and…
The Pandemic Response Unleashed Two Kinds of Nationalism
Sunetra Gupta became my whisperer early in the pandemic due to her comprehensive understanding of the relationship between society and…
When Did Trump Change His Mind about Lockdowns?
All sources we have so far testify that Trump greenlighted nationwide lockdowns the weekend of March 14-15, 2020, under the…
The Choice Is Liberty or Lockdown
Two years after the first edition, the second edition of Liberty or Lockdown is now in print, just as the…
The Market Still Loves You
This book – The Market Loves You, now it is second edition – was written in the Before Times. Looking back through…
It Ends as it Began: As a Political Ploy
The current US president finally said it during a 60 Minutes interview: “The pandemic is over.” Though obviously true by…
Governor Andrew Cuomo: From Hero to Goofball in One Seasonal Virus
Oh joy, another book by a hero of lockdowns! This time it is from Andrew Cuomo, who rode the disease-panic…
The Story of Jared Kushner and His Ventilators
You know the phrase self-aware? It does not apply to Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law. He somehow winnowed his…
A World on Fire
Every day, news reporters, traders, and workers of all sorts the world over wake to do their work as they…
Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up
A lawsuit against the federal government – Anthony Fauci in particular – from the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana has…
Frankenstein Was the Foreshadowing
Two years before lockdowns, the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, about which a wonderful movie…