The old FedEx envelope was clever, a work of art even, optimistic and colorful, signifying speed and progress. What a beautiful contrast to the plainness of the US Postal Service. For years, I can recall dropping off these treasures and …
Why Delay the Pandemic Start Date?
Today I’m going to attempt to answer a nagging question that’s been percolating in the back of my mind for a while now.
The question that’s been gnawing at me is why would it be so important to push the …
Bureaucracy’s Unstoppable Parasitic Growth
My Dearest American Friends and Colleagues:
Just in case you didn’t notice, since the 1980s we have developed a very big problem which is growing exponentially. The US national debt has become unsustainable.
To a significant extent this debt is …
The Declaration That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
It’s been a continuing mystery for three years, at least to me but many others too. In October 2020, in the midst of a genuine crisis, three scientists made a very short statement of highly public health wisdom, a summary …
Anatomy of Deep State Censorship
Fellow Americans, the government will take care of you!
They don’t want you to have to worry about information that they don’t approve in your social media accounts.
They don’t want you to worry that the US government would directly …
Liberal as a Political Adjective: 1769–1824
The digitization of text has enabled us to prove that liberalism started with Adam Smith and friends. Liberalism 1.0 was Smithian liberalism.
I show the origins, nature, and character of liberalism 1.0 in a new study, “‘Liberal’ as a Political …
The Real Scandal: Covid Inquiry’s Failure
The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it. Here’s an excerpt.
Let’s …
Bearing Eternal Witness to a Scam
When I was growing up in the 1960s-70s, we often played late summer and fall football games in various locations: on streets, vacant lots, school fields, suburban yards, a grocery store parking lot (under the lights) or in parks. In …
The Politics of Disdain
I am pleased to publish here a brief excerpt from an article originally published in City Journal with my colleague Emily Burns, a research analyst, writer, and member of our censorship working group at Brownstone Institute.
Several commentators have claimed …
How Did the Corruption of Public Health Happen?
International public health is a mess. Once seen generally as a public good, the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) now more closely resembles a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse. Wealthy corporations drive a ‘public-private …
Lockdowns Were Anything but “Prudent and Essential”
Here’s a letter to Law & Liberty:
Editor:
While I agree with much that Brent Orrell expresses in “The Freedom to Choose” (October 25), I was flabbergasted by his assertion that government’s covid measures, including lockdowns, “were prudent and essential …
Did Liberalism Fail?
If we are going to survive we need a coherent political philosophy. I’m not convinced that we have one right now. In the movement for medical freedom we’ve gotten really good at describing the current crisis and critiquing the other …
A Reevaluation of the Pandemic Preparedness and Response Agenda
This is an initiative of the University of Leeds, in cooperation with Brownstone Institute, to clarify the evidence base on which history’s largest public health program is being built.
Public health serves a vital role in strengthening population resilience to …
Brownstone Institute at Year Three
Brownstone Institute’s third annual conference and gala is upon us. It’s a good time to reflect on where we’ve been and where we are going.
Before we begin, this much is obvious: lots of very powerful people want this institution …
Professions are the Cartels of our Managerial Age
Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill is a pediatric allergist in Toronto. She condemned COVID rules as irrational, political, harmful, and inconsistent with scientific data. In the eyes of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), Gill was dangerous.
In …