Brownstone Category
Freedom Itself Is Gravely in Peril
The FBI has raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida and opened a private safe, hanging around for hours looking for…
Just How Healthy Are These Labor Markets?
The news of the falling unemployment and the rise in total payrolls in July 2022 came as a welcome relief…
Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO
Many of us with a libertarian frame of mind presume as a matter of theory that the interests of business…
The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression
If you were on vacation last week, good for you. You missed one of Congress’s greatest-ever scams. They just approved…
The Day Anthony Fauci Wrecked American Freedom
Fears of a virus from China had been rising for two months in the spring of 2020. The White House…
Dictatorship Chic
In the trajectory laid out by F.A. Hayek in his 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, dictatorship is the end…
Mozart, Mediocrity, and the Administrative State
The 1984 movie Amadeus is a great achievement in its genre because it actually puts the creative process of the…
Articles of Inquiry: The Role of Media
The media, both traditional and social media, had an outsized role during the pandemic in pushing the US government’s Covid…
The US President Finally Gets Covid
The political hierarchy of infectious disease has finally come full circle. Biden got Covid. Covid pandemic policies have always been…
The 1968-69 “Hong Kong Flu” Pandemic Revisited
It was a very bad year for the flu. The pathogen came in two large waves. This is only obvious…
The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now
On February 27, 2020, weeks before full disease panic hit the US, the New York Times podcast started preparing the…
Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit
The December 2020 resignation of Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, revealed predictable hypocrisy. Like so…
Twelve Questions on Economic Issues for the Next Congress
We are now experiencing an economic crisis that could get worse. Financials are in bear markets. Inflation is roaring. The…
Musk Declines to Save Twitter from Itself
The question is finally settled: Elon Musk has declined to buy Twitter. His initial offer of $44 billion was contingent…
The Crash and Burn of Credentialism
The word credentials is derived from Latin for “believe” as in “Credo in unum deum” meaning “I believe in one…
The Mighty Gorsuch vs. the Administrative State: Quotes from West Virginia vs. EPA
The power of the administrative state to destroy liberty and property – to blast through legislation, science, and judicial oversight…
Poke and Sniff: A Lesson from 1906
In 1906, Upton Sinclair came out with his book The Jungle, and it shocked the nation by documenting the horror…
What If People Actually Controlled the Government?
Imagine, if you will, the following system. Government is managed by elected representatives who are in turn elected by the…
The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F
Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on…
The Lockdown Advocacy of Devi Sridhar
The Covid era gave rise not only to popular mania but also to astonishing intellectual pretension. The experts were everywhere.…
At the Military Olympics, October 2019, Wuhan, China, Athletes Caught Covid
It’s going to take far more than a few investigators to piece together the timeline of the great disaster of…
Fauci Finally Gets Covid: The Significance
What precisely happened in the month of February 2020, when Anthony Fauci and cohorts were plotting their pandemic response, is…
The Economic Meltdown Has Roots in Lockdown
American’s capacity for denial is truly a thing to behold. For at least 27 months, it should have been obvious…
The Mass Betrayal of Trust
In the genre of film known as Film Noir – made in Hollywood during the late 30s and 40s – the…
CDC Wants Its Covid Regime Made Permanent
There is no remorse at the CDC. Far from it. The model of virus control deployed over the last 27…
Uses and Abuses of the Defense Production Act
With President Biden beginning this week by invoking the Defense Production Act (this time, to build solar panels) we figured it’s…
False Messaging Forever: The WHO’s Plan for the Future
The World Health Organization (WHO), and the growing pandemic preparedness industry sponsoring it, have faced considerable challenges in maintaining support…
The Unbearably Predictable Prattle of the Boston Globe
Back in the day, when I was a habitue of leftist anti-war websites (they used to exist), nothing could rile…
A Short History of the Testing Debacle
On a bitter cold January afternoon, lines of people awaiting free covid tests stretched around the block at a Rockville,…
Was It the Pandemic or the Response?
“Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them at vastly higher rates during this year’s Omicron wave…