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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.

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Covid Response at Five Years

Covid Response at Five Years: Lockdowns

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Beginning on March 16, 2020, nearly every state imposed “stay-at-home” orders. This totalitarianism was not reserved for brash political celebrities like Andrew Cuomo or Gavin Newsom. Supposedly moderate figures like Maryland’s Larry Hogan unleashed their authoritarian impulses.

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The Top 137 ‘Covid Contrarian/Freedom’ Substack Newsletters

The Top 137 ‘Covid Contrarian/Freedom’ Substack Newsletters

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Below I rank and list the top 137 Substack newsletters that meet my subjective labels of newsletters produced by “Covid Contrarian” and/or “Freedom” authors. From this “leaderboard,” readers can identify writers who have become noteworthy critics of myriad Status-Quo narratives.

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Covid Response at Five Years: The First Amendment Versus the U.S. Security State

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While public officials touted party lines, a more insidious censorship operation worked to eradicate dissent from the marketplace of ideas. As Judge Terry Doughty wrote, Covid censorship sparked arguably “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

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Operation Warp Speed: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly

Operation Warp Speed: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly

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A unique feature of OWS was that it was used by Trump’s supporters and detractors to laud or denigrate the initiative. This bifurcation extended to the healthcare establishment, a clear indication that medical science had been eclipsed by political science.

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