Brownstone Journal

Articles, News, Research, and Commentary on public health, science, economics, & social theory

  • All
  • Censorship
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Government
  • History
  • Law
  • Masks
  • Media
  • Pharma
  • Philosophy
  • Policy
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Vaccines

The Mask Mandate Is Illegal: Quotes from the District Court Judgment

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Countless millions have been threatened, victimized, hectored, barked at, thrown off buses, trains, and planes – with even young children forcibly muzzled – when in fact, it has been the federal government itself that has been violating the law.

The Mask Mandate Is Illegal: Quotes from the District Court Judgment Read Journal Article

Political Loyalties Have Been Blown Up 

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The last two years have confounded everyone who believed in the stability of American law, politics, public opinion, and the ideological attachments of both pundits and the general population. It’s all been turned upside down and inside out several times over. Anyone who thinks that we’ve all settled back into some mythical comfort bubbles of “liberals” vs “conservatives” is refusing to face post-pandemic politico-cultural realities. 

Political Loyalties Have Been Blown Up  Read Journal Article

Here’s Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

From a human perspective, it was easy to understand why so many were reluctant to face the numbers from Sweden. For the inevitable conclusion must be that millions of people had been denied their freedom, and millions of children had had their education disrupted, all for nothing.

Here’s Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden Read Journal Article

Is Liberalism a Lost Cause?

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Is liberalism a lost cause? Many say so. Many today dream that it would stay gone, forever doomed to be regarded as a failed experiment in a world longing for authoritarian control whether by the right, the left, the technocratic elite, or something else. Demoralized and depressed by so much “shock and awe,” and living in times of ubiquitous surveillance and unrelenting diktat, many others are inclined to give up the dream of freedom completely.

Is Liberalism a Lost Cause? Read Journal Article

Plagues and the Unleashing of Power

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

We can see the long arm of history reaching from the times of the Black Death to modern epidemics, where coercion and state control are accepted by a terrified public and conveniently deemed by a power-hungry elite to be the only acceptable way to combat natural disasters, even at the risk of tremendous and unnecessary collateral damage.

Plagues and the Unleashing of Power Read Journal Article

What Is Motivating the Shanghai Lockdown?

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

It’s possible that at some point down the line, Chinese authorities became convinced that their Wuhan lockdown actually worked, and that an aggressive level of nationalistic superiority was the reason that China justifies its position as the only country in the world to “eliminate” the virus through lockdowns.

What Is Motivating the Shanghai Lockdown? Read Journal Article

How Virus Spending Became the New Virus

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

In a word, the combination of government induced “supply-side” contraction and ultra-stimulated merchandise “demand” has no parallel for folly in the annals of Washington economic policy. It was a destructive eruption in a class all by itself, and the foundation for the runaway inflation now plaguing the American public.

How Virus Spending Became the New Virus Read Journal Article

Elon Musk’s Big Move on Twitter

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Elon Musk’s exciting and dramatic move represents a bold attempt to overthrow the regime of control, propaganda, and enforced opinion as manufactured by the administrative state. It could be a sign of things to come. The upheaval of our times will eventually touch every institution based on the widespread perception that something has gone very wrong and cries out for a fix. 

Elon Musk’s Big Move on Twitter Read Journal Article

Stay Informed with Brownstone Institute