Maybe More People Objected Than We Knew
For four years, we’ve carried around a presumption that when lockdowns came, most people went along out of fear of…
For four years, we’ve carried around a presumption that when lockdowns came, most people went along out of fear of…
Journalist David Zweig spotted an interesting paper released by the British Medical Journal. It concerns the effectiveness of HEPA filters…
Donald Trump will certainly get the Republican nomination. With that the issue of truth and honesty about what happened on…
It’s helpful to think of a Covid experience as a never-ending house of horrors, with room after room of scandal…
Do you think we need a Pentagon for public health to wage war on new pathogens? Not likely, and that…
Of all living things, only humans seem to have the drive and capacity for documentation, record-keeping, and writing for the…
For four years now, any talk of allowing society to function in the event of a pandemic has called forth…
One might suppose that the voices of mainstream media and elite culture in general would be more self-critical than they…
Think of this. In the time since the Covid crisis has passed, no aspect of any federal power that was…
Two years ago, attorney and Brownstone Fellow Bobbie Anne Flower Cox took note of the New York State executive order…
An intriguing controversy hit much of the civilized planet in the second half of the 19th century. How would we…
Tucker Carlson has conducted a brilliant interview with biologist and podcaster Bret Weinstein, who has been on the Covid case…
The train wasn’t scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the…
[This is the introduction to Conformity Colleges: The Destruction of Intellectual Creativity and Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R.…
Public culture today is replete with excuses for why lockdowns had to happen. Seems like more are being generated by…
Getting sick and getting well is part of the human experience at all times in all places. As with other…
Francis Collins was head of the National Institutes of Health – Anthony Fauci’s parent bureaucracy – during the wreckage caused…
Corporate bankruptcies in the US just hit the largest rate since the worst of the lockdowns. It’s a reflection of…
Many people this holiday season will experience the joy of attending a local performance of The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr…
At least the UK held public hearings, even if they were gamed from the start. There is a smidgeon of…
Elon Musk is the world’s richest man but also the number one target of the world’s richest governments and their…
Everyone was supposed to be back at the office by now. It’s not really happening, however, and this has huge…
The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the Age…
[This piece was commissioned by Hillsdale College and presented on campus October 27, 2023] It’s an impossible task to explain…
The answer to the question “Will they ever admit to being wrong?” is of course: no. I’m speaking in particular…
What was the fundamental error of the Covid response? We’ve yet to come to terms with it. It traces to…
The old FedEx envelope was clever, a work of art even, optimistic and colorful, signifying speed and progress. What a…
It’s been a continuing mystery for three years, at least to me but many others too. In October 2020, in…
It’s a shift worth marking. New York Magazine is featuring an article called “COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It…
This is not about whether there is such a thing as a literal social contract. The phrase has always been…