Brownstone Category
Elections Won’t Fix This
Americans have limitless faith in democracy. In the early 19th century, that charmed Alexis de Tocqueville. His book Democracy in…
A Helplessness People, Weary and Traumatized
When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them…
Fauci Goes to Princeton
Last month, I went to Princeton to protest the University’s “Class Day” speaker, Tony Fauci. It astounded me that students…
The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States
Because there are no possible ways to analyze, categorize, parse, or dissect population data other than by “Share of Trump…
CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study
We have published many rigorous and trustworthy high-quality evidence pieces across the last two years to show that the COVID…
The Politics of Natural Infection
From the very outset of this pandemic, the topic of natural infection has been a taboo. To suggest that anyone…
Mask Mandates at Tufts University: Wrecking Campus Life
Below: Email to Executive Editor of Tufts Daily, followed by response and reasoning for rejection. Nothing is ever settled. We…
White House Disinformation about Kids and Covid
As many pandemic restrictions have, at least temporarily, been lifted, many activist “experts” have understandably become increasingly frustrated with the…
Justice Department Appeals to Get Masks Back on Airlines, Buses, and Trains
I am not a gambling man. As an investor, financial data analyst, and rock climber, I may appear on the…
Authoritarian Pandemic Policies: A Reckoning
With the Corona crisis another chapter was written in the biopolitical book of life. During the last two years, we…
When Will Our Sense of Security Return?
When faced with incoming disasters, we undergo personal status checks to evaluate our risk of making it through unscathed. If…
Inflationary Pressure Is Worse than They Say
We are apparently back in the spend-your-way-to-prosperity mode. Last week Wall Street greeted the “strong” April PCE number with a…
How the Pandemic Response Changed My Thinking
Looking back to the “before times” – meaning before the middle of March 2020 – we were all quite naive about…
Ethnocentrism and Political Intolerance: A Two Year Retrospective on the Pandemic Response
We all make the mistake of thinking “Americans” have the same culture, the same beliefs & values. However, while united…
Why Did US Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model?
In Hannah Arendt’s report on Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, Arendt concludes that Eichmann was…
Updated Johns Hopkins Study on Lockdowns Debunks the Fact Checkers
Last January, the John Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise published a working…
Mask Mandates Back in Philadelphia
I live in Philadelphia, now officially proven to be one of the dumbest cities ever, as noted by Brownstone contributor…
After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated
Anyone who imagines that the suspension of Covid-related measures in much of Europe means that those measures, and hence the…
The Loss of Trust Is Well Earned
Society is broken at many levels, and the economy too. We face a mental health crisis among young people following…
World Economic Forum Pushes Facial Recognition Technology
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has just ended. The theme of the five-day event, “Working Together, Restoring…
The Corruption of the World Health Organization
‘Global Health’ is confusing. A few short years ago community participation, disease burden, resource allocation and human rights dominated its…
The Grim Reality of Post-Lockdown Economic Trends
Things are starting to snap left and right—yesterday’s 43% plunge by Snap Inc. (SNAP) being among them. Then again when…
Lockdown Is Not Liberalism’s Endgame
Matthew Crawford rightly decries covid fear-mongering and restrictions, yet he too quickly blames this dystopian turn on flaws inherent in…
World Health Organization Deploys Another Disease Threat to Push Global Survelliance
The threat posed by monkeypox is real, very real. Or is it? According to Dr. Robert Malone, not really. But…
School Closings and Violent Youth: A Potential Link
Our greatest fears have now seemed to materialize. The school closures, social dislocation, the two years of isolation, the lockdown…
The Monkeypox Outbreak of 2003
I can’t believe I’m even typing the word Monkeypox. However, a CDC MMWR report, brought to my attention by @EWoodhouse7, was…
When 800 Mainstream US Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns
If for two years you depended only on mass media during the covid crisis, one’s perspective became distorted. You might…
Shanghai Scientists Have Adapted to Regime Priorities
Earlier this month, The Lancet published an article titled “Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic” by…
The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December…
The Rise of Hepatitis
The number of previously healthy children younger than 16 years of age with mysterious hepatitis cases have doubled in two…