Brownstone Journal

Brownstone Journal features in-depth articles, news, research, and commentary on public health, science, economics, social theory, and related policy issues — offering critical perspectives on institutional failures, government interventions, and threats to liberty.

Explore topics like vaccine trials, post-pandemic public sentiment, cancer screening dilemmas, weight loss drugs, food systems, digital ID, antidepressants, pandemic profit motives, collapse in public trust, and paths to evidence-based reform, personal freedoms, and a healthier society.

All Brownstone Institute articles are translated into multiple languages to reach global readers, foster international dialogue, and support challenges to centralized narratives worldwide.

Brownstone » Brownstone Journal
Australia's Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking

Australia’s Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The right-wing populist wave that broke over much of the world in 2016 barely lapped at Australia’s shores. The nation’s compulsory, preferential voting system and homogeneous, middle-management style politics formed a bulwark against the tide. Now, that bulwark is starting to crack.

Australia’s Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking Continue Reading

Medicine by Captivity: The Rise of the Hostage Physician

Medicine by Captivity: The Rise of the Hostage Physician

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

When doctors spend more time serving systems than serving patients, medicine changes. When physicians are afraid to speak honestly, medicine changes. When throughput quietly shapes bedside decisions, medicine changes. When documentation matters more than human presence, medicine changes.

Medicine by Captivity: The Rise of the Hostage Physician Continue Reading

The Biggest Breast Cancer Advance in the Last Twenty Years

The Biggest Breast Cancer Advance in the Last Twenty Years

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Some clinicians and public-health researchers would argue that the media narrative minimizes known and proven downsides of these drugs, often trivializing or ignoring serious harms, including risks of stroke, blood clots, gallbladder disease, and increased breast cancer risk.

The Biggest Breast Cancer Advance in the Last Twenty Years Continue Reading

✓ Added to cart!
Loading cart…

Join 30,000+ Independent Readers: Get the FREE Brownstone Journal Newsletter