Brownstone Category

September 4, 2022

The Return of Carl Schmitt and His Scheme for Regime Longevity

The message and optics of Joe Biden’s address from September 1, 2022, were startling in our supposedly enlightened times. In…

September 2, 2022

Cold War Nostalgia Explained

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev this week unleashed a wave of nostalgia for simpler and better times. That’s odd, isn’t…

September 1, 2022

US Life Expectancy Down Three Years in Two Years

Jared Kushner had not yet read the news most likely. He was just telling an interviewer that he is working…

August 29, 2022

Social Distancing Was Supposed to Be Forever 

By April 2020, two months into the lockdowns, eminent Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben had put his finger on a point…

August 27, 2022

Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight! 

The legend is that patents are a just reward for new inventions. The reality is that they are government grants…

August 23, 2022

Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown

The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in…

August 22, 2022

How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?

The 1998 movie Enemy of the State starring Gene Hackman and Will Smith seemed like fiction at the time. Why…

August 19, 2022

How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It 

Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power…

August 17, 2022

The CDC Failed, So Spin It Off and Make It More Powerful?

The failure of the CDC to manage Covid-19 was baked in from the first moments of its response. A government…

August 14, 2022

A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal 

It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years.…