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…
We Need a Principled Anti-Lockdown Movement
Shell-shocked is a good way to describe the mood in the U.S. for a good part of the Spring of…
Madness in Melbourne
Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel days of…
Is Immunity a Case of Rothbard’s Lost Knowledge?
Murray Rothbard’s wonderful History of Economic Thought opens with a blast against what he called the Whig theory of intellectual…
The Virus Doesn’t Care about Your Policies
Based on the data, there seems to be no relationship between lockdowns and lives saved. That’s remarkable, given that we…
The Bloodless Political Class and Its Lack of Empathy
Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue…
How Global Capitalism Boosted Immunities
From the beginning of this virus, political elites have used the language of war. The invisible enemy would be contained,…
Fauci Is Wrong: New York Did Not Do it “Correctly”
After a months-long struggle to contain COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems confident that he has steered the state…
Policing Can and Should Be Privately Provided (Video)
The U.S. is at a crossroads on the topic of policing. The usual binary has framed the debate: support the…
Who Should Be on Trump’s New C-19 Advisory Commission?
I’m an enthusiast for Trump’s attacks on bad showerheads and low-flow faucets and toilets. Six months ago, he was just…