A century of American prosperity has rested on predictable trade policy. Doubling the cost of handmade cigars would not revive US manufacturing, defend workers, or punish tyranny abroad. It would raise prices, destroy jobs, and invite adversaries to fill the gap.
Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash Read Journal Article
This year, Brownstone Institute awarded its prize for outstanding achievement to three exceptional individuals who have been brilliant servants of society and truth in times of great upheaval.
Brownstone Prize Winners 2025 Read Journal Article
At Brownstone, I had been scheduled for a thirty-minute on-stage interview, but at the last minute, it was decided that I should just speak directly to the audience. Below is the text I prepared on short notice.
The MAHA Movement: A View from Within Read Journal Article
In my own field of anesthesiology, the best way to avoid risk is to do nothing at all. I suppose this makes me a walking contradiction: a physician who prescribes medicine while also being somewhat wary of medicine.
A Doctor in Full Read Journal Article
The old world of captured medicine is collapsing under its own weight. The new one is already being born — in every honest conversation, every uncensored study, every act of compassion unmediated by permission.
Why the Healers Had to Rebel Read Journal Article
We can really wonder why there is so little solid data on overall mortality and disability of vaccinated versus unvaccinated people, when this is such an obvious thing for our governments to check.
Discussion on Covid Vaccination Should Be Non-Controversial Read Journal Article
Our message to Powell was that there are multiple reasons to stop cutting interest rates, but one of the most compelling arguments is that the Fed’s cheap money policies have essentially destroyed any semblance of fiscal discipline in America.
What I Told Jerome Powell: Don’t Cut Rates Read Journal Article
The work of Gail Seiler and Teresa Cichewicz reminds us that even in the face of systemic failure, truth, conscience, and human dignity can still be defended. It feels fitting that the Betrayal Project’s emblem is a lighthouse.
To Bear Witness after Institutional Betrayal Read Journal Article
On Oct. 10, Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, announced that he found that our president “remains in exceptional health” and that he had received “updated Covid-19 booster vaccinations.” It’s likely the president received a Pfizer mRNA shot.
As it turns out, machines do a better job than anonymous oligarchs at getting us close to the truth. Welcome to the post-Wikipedia age. It was fun while it lasted. All hail its deprecation and replacement with something much better.
The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia Read Journal Article
Government UBI will happen – it already does to some extent. It will not be cash handouts but digital currency. Your UBI will be yours as long as you use it for what the government allows.
Universal Basic Income: Make Slavery Great Again Read Journal Article
Consistent with the belief that every crisis is also an opportunity, the current global flux created by the crisis of multilateralism provides an exceptionally favourable confluence of circumstances for a transformative redesign of the architecture of international health governance.
Connecting the Dots between the WHO and UN Security Council Reform Read Journal Article
