Articles

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

Brownstone » Articles » Page 155
Trump White House

At the White House, March 10, 2020, Reconstructed

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

This is all very alarming of course, and I want no leaks, not today, not ever. We need to pitch this to the American people calmly and with great authority. I think you are all correct that people will follow my lead on this. You have all made your case. Let’s get to work. I’ll send a tweet tomorrow promising to use the full power of the federal government. We are going to beat this. You are about to see Trump in action as never before. 

At the White House, March 10, 2020, Reconstructed Continue Reading

deep state

Is McKinsey & Company Part of the Deep State? 

By / / , / 14 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The administrative state is horrible and it deserves to be called out. The next President can and should cut the administrative state in half (one could do so with no loss in services). But reading When McKinsey Comes to Town I realized that management consultants likely make up a larger share of the deep state than bureaucrats. 

Is McKinsey & Company Part of the Deep State?  Continue Reading

Are We Facing Lockdowns 2.0?

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

Lockdowns were the most successful state/corporate policy in world history for convincing the population to give up volition, liberty, and money to the biomedical cartels and all its associated parts. Something that is this monstrously successful for them becomes a model for the future, which they try and try until the population gets utterly and completely sick of it, as they did with the religious wars of old. 

Are We Facing Lockdowns 2.0? Continue Reading

UFOs or Covid

Why Are They Talking about UFOs Instead of Covid Fascism?

By / / , / 4 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The lesson of the muted response to COVID from the so-called right is that clearly things have not gotten bad enough. The sad and terrifying thing is that whatever they must throw at us to elicit a righteous and unified policy response will now have to be so devastating that we will likely never have the political ability to fight it even if we wanted to. Meanwhile, the vanity and political circus will continue unabated.

Why Are They Talking about UFOs Instead of Covid Fascism? Continue Reading

ten trillion dollars

$10 Trillion Stolen Right Under Our Noses

By / / , / 6 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

All of the “Covid Relief” numbers are far too big to understand unless one has a good numbers sense and sits quietly in a room with some blank paper and does some ciphering. People thought it was a good idea to spend limitlessly and futilely on Grandma without considering the costs to her adult children and grandkids. Hey, Grandma used to make us cookies; she’s worth whatever we’ve got. And even what we don’t got. Even if we can’t, through the full range of “mitigation,” keep her alive for another two months in a nursing home, where she’s seldom visited. If she has to live in isolation and die alone to “stop the spread,” so be it.

$10 Trillion Stolen Right Under Our Noses Continue Reading

pretending

We Are All Pretending There Is No Emergency

By / / / 4 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Perhaps we all know what just happened, but we are all pretending that it didn’t, from one of two perspectives – either pretending that everything is normal while actively suppressing one’s suspicion that it isn’t; or knowing everything is very very bad and actively disguising that knowledge with plausible cover stories when we encounter the other perspective.

We Are All Pretending There Is No Emergency Continue Reading

indictment

The Real Trouble with the Trump Indictment

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

Forget the media frenzy about the details: who spoke with whom and when, which Trump adviser is being charged for which “debunked” claim, and so on. The important point about this indictment is that lawyers are being charged with felonies for doing legal work. An American prosecutor is criminalizing the legal profession – a business that can only end with the “totalitarian form of government” whose first steps Justice Stevens identified with the elimination of lawyers.

The Real Trouble with the Trump Indictment Continue Reading

pfizer pregnancy

Pfizer Drip Feeds Data From its Pregnancy Trial

By / / , / 6 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

In January 2021, in the absence of any human data in pregnancy, the CDC stated on its website that mRNA vaccines were “unlikely to pose a specific risk for people who are pregnant.” Behind the scenes however, Pfizer was scrambling to conduct a clinical trial of its vaccine in pregnant women. By February 2022, Pfizer revealed it still did “not yet have a complete data set.”

Pfizer Drip Feeds Data From its Pregnancy Trial Continue Reading

government

How My Views on Government Have Changed

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

The government tried to dehumanize unvaccinated people, and largely succeeded according to polling showing that a significant percentage of people if not outright majorities held a variety of shocking views about unvaccinated people including that they are selfish; stupid; a danger to society; should be forcibly confined to their homes; have their children taken away; and be relocated to “quarantine facilities.” A considerable plurality of vaccinated people, in a word, overtly despised the unvaccinated.

How My Views on Government Have Changed Continue Reading

long covid HIV

Long Covid Is the New AIDS

By / / , / 6 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

If everything can be blamed on Long COVID, then nothing can be blamed on Long COVID. It’s all confirmation studies from here on out. But since the COVID pandemic has ended and HIV continues to threaten at-risk populations without access to medicine, the actual need for HIV research will remain greater, while concerns about Long COVID among the public will fade.

Long Covid Is the New AIDS Continue Reading

biden mask mandate

Revisiting the Biden Legal Position on Masks

By / / / 3 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

It’s not difficult to discern what we might call the Biden Doctrine of administrative rule-making. It means that the agencies can order whatever they want, whether or not there is any plausible basis in law or whether or not there is any rational basis for it at all. It is a doctrine of bureaucratic supremacy. 

Revisiting the Biden Legal Position on Masks Continue Reading

welcome to the dying earth

Welcome to the Dying Earth 

By / / , / 28 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

There are always forces in this world that pull us down into the muck and mire. In our day-to-day pursuit of happiness, desire, entertainment, and survival, it is easy to forget what we have the potential to become. It is easy to get lost in technicalities, in ego trips and in reactionary indignation. If we are the victims of atrocities, it is all the easier to seek our justice in retaliation, viciousness, and brutal revenge. But in a world where everybody sees themselves as the primary and true victim, where does that ultimately leave us?

Welcome to the Dying Earth  Continue Reading

Join the Brownstone Community
Get our FREE Journal Newsletter