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
Fauci lied

Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed

By / / , , / 8 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The entire mess began not just with a bad prediction but an outrageously bad falsehood – spoken in front of deeply ignorant and terrified politicians – one that was followed by an egregious demand that we get rid of normal social and market functioning. The consequences are for the ages. Fauci had his own masters and minions but it is impossible to avoid the reality that he bears primary responsibility as the voice of panic that shut down freedoms hard won over a millennium. 

Fauci Fibbed on the Day Everything Changed Continue Reading

freedom slipped

Forty Years of Freedom Slipped Away So Quickly 

By / / , , / 10 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

We dare not relent lest the despotism we experienced only very recently be repeated and entrenched. We know now that it can happen, and that there is nothing inevitable about genuine progress. Our job now is to regroup and recommit to living free lives, never again believing that there are magical forces at work in the world that make our role as thinkers and doers unnecessary. 

Forty Years of Freedom Slipped Away So Quickly  Continue Reading

government programs

The Growing Gap Between Reality and Pop Science

By / / , / 8 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Government programs need to be rigorously evaluated, particularly when they affect public health and individual rights. The objectives should be clear, whereas in this case they were vague and constantly shifting. And the outcomes data should be straightforward, whereas in this case they depend on complex and variable statistical processing of small samples.

The Growing Gap Between Reality and Pop Science Continue Reading

expert

Time to Trust Your Inner Expert 

By / / / 9 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The problem in our current world is that “experts” demand our behaviors conform to their self-proclaimed expert prognostications, for which they are never held responsible in any way. No costs to those predicting the future are associated with prognostication errors. All costs of future-telling errors are borne by not-prognosticators. Those costs are borne by the people, by society, by the economy, all too often by children, etc. The rest of us bear the costs.

Time to Trust Your Inner Expert  Continue Reading

future of biology

The Future of Biology Studies is Obedience to Orthodoxy 

By / / / 7 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Countless people from all walks of life have found themselves lost in a shared Kafkaesque dream since the dawn of the Pandemic Era nearly three years ago, yet, what makes accounts such as those contained here particularly jarring is that these students were not simply contending with a class of administrative automotons, as many have, but with well-trained, well-educated biologists – the kind of people one might have initially expected to put up the greatest resistance to illogical and scientifically unsound Covid policies. 

The Future of Biology Studies is Obedience to Orthodoxy  Continue Reading

fifty questions

Fifty Questions to Which We Demand Answers

By / / , , / 7 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Though many in positions of power would prefer that we forgot, the strict lockdowns that consumed the world in 2020 are extremely well documented. Above all, these lockdowns were a chilling demonstration of just how quickly western officials, policymakers, scientists, journalists, and soon entire populations could be convinced to adopt a degree of totalitarianism in their everyday lives. Until we have real answers as to how exactly they happened, and why, there’s no reason for any thinking citizen to have confidence in the current crop of officials who claim to represent them.

Fifty Questions to Which We Demand Answers Continue Reading

political economy pandemic response

The Political Economy of the US Pandemic Response

By / / , , / 92 minute read / Research
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

In this essay, written from a broad economics perspective that incorporates an understanding of incentives, institutions, information, and power, we address the following three broad questions: (1) What were the roles and responsibilities of our institutions when faced with a threat like Covid? (2) What were the costs and benefits of the response that transpired? (3) What is the need and potential for institutional and social reform?

The Political Economy of the US Pandemic Response Continue Reading

Join the Brownstone Community
Get our FREE Journal Newsletter