Renewed calls for mask mandates are on the rise, as reports of scary Covid variants are making their way through the news. My perception is that most people will not accept this. It’s fairly well known among the public that …
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Missouri v. Biden
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments over the Fifth Circuit’s grant of a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden. As I mentioned in previous posts, the injunction would bar officials from the White House, CDC, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), …
The Veil of Silence over Excess Deaths
Around the world, there has been a deafening silence over excess deaths from governments and the mainstream media, who not so long ago were quite fixated on the daily death toll for Covid.
On October 20th, a 30-minute adjourned debate …
The Quarantine of Humans and Pets at the Height of Covid Mania
“Do you have pets?” she asked.
The Occupational Therapist at the University of Virginia Hospital sounded badly spooked. After a car crash, I had a sternal fracture, spinal breaks, neck tears, traumatic brain injury, and extensive and deep bruising on …
What is Adulteration of Vaccines, and Why Should You Care?
Lately there has been a lot of discussion among insiders and those closely following the COVID “mRNA vaccine” story concerning contamination of the mRNA vaccines with DNA fragments which include DNA sequences derived from Simian Virus 40 (SV40).
Is this …
Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy Made Real
How many people have noticed that, today – since at least the beginning of the so-called ‘pandemic,’ but probably earlier – governments, or constitutionally speaking, those who occupy the position of the ‘state,’ have acted as if citizens have no …
Germophobia Therapy: Reality Check Edition
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe.
When my sister goes into a hotel room for the first time, she takes a container of disinfecting …
Is There a Cure for the Western Public Health Catastrophe?
As the West drifts further and further away from optimal public health systems, let us dream out loud about what an ideal set of institutions to promote health would look like.
The covid debacle has revealed the depths of perversity …
On Broken Friendships
One warm, early-1980s weekday afternoon, I was walking east on Delancey Street in New York City’s Lower East Side. At that time, as were many areas of the city, Delancey was kind of rundown. I don’t remember what brought me …
Is Serfdom Humanity’s Default?
In the mid-20th century, the economist Friedrich von Hayek warned that the rise of centrally-planned economies—whether in the form of socialism/communism or fascism, which he argued have common roots—was leading us all (back) down “the road to serfdom.”
The term …
The First Champion of Free Speech
Most accounts of the history of free speech political doctrines—after a nod to the Magna Carta (which lays some groundwork but does not specifically mention free speech)—begin with poet and scholar John Milton’s famous, Areopagitica: A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed …
Where is the Office for Human Research Protections?
Recent posts on the Brownstone site have done an excellent job of exposing the professional, ethical, public health, governmental, ideological, and political lapses (to put it very politely) in handling what has been the nation’s COVID pandemic response, which has …
EcoHealth Alliance’s Wuhan-Virus Dalliances
Recently, Brownstone.org received communication from EcoHealth Alliance in response to my article Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Own ‘Gain-of-Function.’ Eco-Health claims the Wuhan work on bat coronaviruses didn’t meet the definition of gain-of-function and asks that we amend the article, with any …
The Left Needs to Find Itself
It is tiring to be accused of being ‘far-right’ by people doing the bidding of the corporations and investors who recently made a killing on Covid. It is particularly irritating that such people, whilst deriding low-income workers and the ‘uneducated,’ …
Covid and the Expansion and Abuse of State Power
My new book brings together a collection of articles over the last three years. Many of these were published in Spectator Australia magazine and on Brownstone Institute, as well as in mainstream newspapers like the Australian and the Japan Times, …