Americans are Finally Growing Weary of Lockdowns
There are public protests against lockdowns in Denmark, Italy, France, and all over Europe. They are growing in numbers and…
Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study that goes to the heart of the issue of lockdowns.…
It Was a Mistake to Close Schools, UK Study Concedes
On March 12, 2020, the memo went out from the pen of Carter Mecher, bioterrorism expert at advising the Veterans…
The Fun Night that Wasn’t Fun
In the old days, which seem behind us, people were invited to marvel at the workings of the American system.…
Death by Lockdown
On March 28 – very early in the pandemic – AIER published an article that I felt at the time…
Lockdowns Recreated a Pre-Modern Caste System
If you test positive or refuse to be tested at all in New Zealand, prepare to be shipped out to…
Do the Disease Eradicators Make an Elementary Logical Mistake?
I’ve rarely seen it put so bluntly as I have in the video posted below, in an interview with epidemiologist…
The New Feudalism
On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to…
Why This Disastrous Experiment Also Hurt States that Did Not Lock Down
Imagine 100 people on a wholly deserted island. Life would be pretty dreadful, right? With only 100 people producing, work…
The Return of the Flagellants
The lockdowns have disproportionately targeted fun. No house parties. No travel. Bowling, bars, Broadway, theater, amusement parks, all banned. Weddings,…
The World Health Organization in 2011 Warned Against a “Culture of Fear”
A fine feature of the decentralized network of anti-lockdown Twitter is that it turns up fantastic bits of research that…
An Attempted Media Sandbag: My Experience
I’ve got a day job but try to fit in podcasts and television when possible. I don’t always pay super…
George Melloan, a Giant at the Wall Street Journal, Has Died
George Melloan, who died last week at the age of 92, wrote his last column for the Wall Street Journal…
Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism
Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision…
Emancipation From Lockdown in Florida
Governor Ron DeSantis has proven it: it is actually possible for a politician to wise up and do the right…
Top Twenty Lessons I’ve Learned in 2020
This year has been a shock. Here is an early sketch of what I think I’ve learned. Governments are fully…
Liberty or Lockdown
I’m very pleased to announce that my book Liberty or Lockdown is now available at Amazon. It includes a foreword…
Should Scott Atlas Sue His Detractors?
Former Stanford professor and now White House advisor Scott Atlas has positioned himself against lockdowns and for widespread reopening of…
In this Red Dawn, Who Invaded Whom?
The gigantic mess of 2020 called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn, based on the old movie…
In a War on Restaurants, Media Tout the Lockdown Narrative
Just when the fear starts to subside, and growing public skepticism seems to push governors into opening, something predictable happens.…
The Clearest and Best Video Explanation of the Virus, the Lockdowns, and the Impact
Those of us who have been reading and writing on lockdowns and the Covid-19 virus have been frustrated in competition…
The Melbourne Syndrome
The Covid pandemic has brought on our modern version of The Stockholm Syndrome which you will recall is: “Feelings of…
Small Signs of Hope that Lockdowns Could Soon End
For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and…
Lockdowns are Cruel and Regressive, says Oxford University’s Professor Sunetra Gupta
Oxford University Professor Sunetra Gupta has been an outspoken voice for calm, science, and rationality in dealing with this virus.…
Older Americans Should Be Anti-Lockdown Activists
It’s happened to quite a number of us. We write against the lockdowns for all the incredible economic, psychological, and…
Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other
A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could…
When Your Intellectual Heroes Let You Down
The lockdown upheaval has affected every aspect of life, including intellectual life. People we have never heard of have become…
What Will Not Recover: Government
What becomes of government credibility in the post-lockdown period? There are thousands of politicians in this country for whom this…
King Canute and the Virus Tide
Nine-hundred years ago, the English historian Henry of Huntingdon wrote down an older Anglo-Saxon story/myth of King Canute who claimed…
Authoritarianism in Auckland
For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt with the Coronavirus! They did the tightest lockdown…