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Vaccines and the Length of Our Lives
by David Bell at Brownstone Institute
The commercial imperative to extract money from human bodies is playing havoc with medical education, and the body of knowledge through which the medical professions operate. Nowhere …
Amazon’s Threefold Injustice
by Daniel Klein at Brownstone Institute
The book The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, appeared in 2018. It explained trends that have remade much of American life, like safetyism, cancel culture, …
Black Swan, White Swan
by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
—Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
It takes one second for a raindrop to fall 32 feet and 3-6 seconds to take a breath. …
Why Has Public Health Been Reduced to Drag?
by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute
Historically, public health was a radical profession. It challenged power and built large public works projects (sewers and sanitation) that dramatically improved lives. But the field …
Germany Is the EU’s Censorship Champion
by Robert Kogon at Brownstone Institute
Note that X, rebranded as a “free speech platform,” provides information on platform users to the governments of EU member states in connection with not just illegal speech …
The Global Assault on Religious Freedom
by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute
Aspiring tyrants are now brazen in their crusade against free speech. John Kerry, Tim Walz, Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kentanji Brown Jackson, Letitia James, and their allies in …
The White Woman’s Burden
by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute
For all its obvious organizational authoritarianism and corruption, the Catholicism that reigned largely unchallenged in Western Europe in the ten or so centuries previous to the unveiling of Martin Luther’s …
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and travel freedom, elite credibility, demographic longevity, and …
They Have the Money, We Have the Numbers
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
Authoritarianism is back across the West — from Europe to the Biden-Harris censorship regime that would fit perfectly in Communist China.
I think many of …
Pandemic in Africa: Lessons and Strategies
by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ramesh Thakur’s book, Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power.
Africa and the pandemic panic:…
Save Furniture, Save the Past
by Richard Kelly at Brownstone Institute
I’ve just finished reading Ben Macintyre’s 2022 book Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle. It’s a captivating tale detailing the extraordinary experiences of those WWII prisoners of war who were held there, …
Prostate Cancer: Over-Testing and Over-Treatment
by Bruce W. Davidson at Brownstone Institute
The excessive medical response to the Covid pandemic made one thing abundantly clear: Medical consumers really ought to do their own research into the health issues that impact …
Tedros: Kill Free Speech to Regain Trust
by Meryl Nass at Brownstone Institute
Remember that the Supreme Court threw out Murthy v Biden. This past week Kennedy and CHD were at the 5th Circuit providing oral arguments before 3 judges about why …
Considerations on Civil Disobedience
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
In his essay, Civil Disobedience (published in 1849, p. 29), Henry David Thoreau writes:
The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I …
How the US Government Turned on the People
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
The catastrophic mismanagement of Hurricane Helene relief is showing the American people that Washington’s dysfunctional but, worse, it doesn’t even seem to be trying to serve the …