Covid and the Three Tests of Compliance
Jesus in the wilderness faced three temptations from the Devil himself: material comfort, fame, and power. Needless to say, he…
Eugenics, Then and Now
The catastrophic Covid response has many people wondering whether we should really turn over public policy — which deals with…
The Sovietization of Medical Care
My good friend professor Yuri Maltsev died this week and I’ve spent these mourning days recalling our conversations. He was…
My First Anti-Lockdown Article from 2020
These days, many people are justifying the egregious government response to the virus based on the claim of ignorance. We…
Human Sacrifice, Then and Now
I’ve spent the last three days in awe of the temples of Teotihuacan, Mexico, which are beyond description in size…
Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something that Does Not Matter
Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it’s been quite a wild ride. Thousands of doctors and scientists have been…
The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns
The latest of the Twitter Files is reported by Alex Berenson, who was granted access to messaging systems from the…
Jordan Peterson: Enemy of the State
The famed psychologist and scholar, and global media personality, Jordan Peterson is being told that he must report to the…
End These Travel Restrictions Now
Once again, the US government has extended the vaccination-only policy for foreign travelers, this time to April and probably later.…
Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed
Anthony Fauci is finally gone from his government perch. Let us recall that it was he who set this calamity…
Forty Years of Freedom Slipped Away So Quickly
Was it all just an illusion? An illusion that lasted forty years? Surely not but something went very wrong, perhaps…
How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives
From the beginning of the Covid panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less…
De Las Casas and the 500-Year Struggle for Liberty
Spending the holiday week in gorgeous Mexico City has sent my mind reeling with reflection on the great struggle of…
What Is Crimson Contagion?
The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public health agencies, not to mention infectious disease doctors.…
We Are Still Locked Down
Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents…
The SBF Scandal: The Players and the Money
The complexities of the FTX scandal with Sam Bankman-Fried at the helm boggles the mind. Unlike the Madoff scandal, which…
How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker
Early during lockdowns in 2020, when the whole of the media marched in lockstep with the most appalling reach of…
What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and…
The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning
Last night was quite the ride. Bari Weiss, who left the New York Times in protest against the culture of…
The World According to Mike Pence
I’m mostly interested in Mike Pence’s book So Help Me God for what he says about the experience of Covid…
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Missing Billions for Pandemic Planning
Yes, I watched the appalling scenes of Sam Bankman-Fried’s media tour. He repeatedly returns to the theme of his philanthropy:…
How to Save Your Skin, According to Bankman-Fried and Fauci
We are being gifted with a series of extremely impressive displays of accountability avoidance. They have been virtuosic acts, ones…
The Doctor Who Can Rebuild Trust: Joseph Ladapo
If you are like me, you are exhausted of the lies. Every day seems to bring new revelations about how…
The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
A series of revealing texts and tweets by Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now…
They Will Lock You Down Again
The lords of lockdown barely escaped their worst possible fate, namely that the topic would become the national and international…
Maybe the Fed Too Was Trolled
The Federal Reserve – and central banks the world over – played a crucial role in making lockdowns possible and weaponizing…
The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write
Sometimes, even now, even after writing a book and probably a thousand or more articles on the topic, and following…
Remember Those Who Cannot Speak
Being on the administrative/editorial side of Brownstone has been a serious education in information systems. I don’t mean on a…
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
It’s been more than obvious since April 2020 that lockdowns were far too costly for individuals and society and could…
The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response
On April 15, 2020, a full month after the President’s fateful news conference that greenlighted lockdowns to be enacted by…