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Reflections on Brownstone’s Retreat

David Barnhizer / March 13, 2024 / Government, Media, Technology / 22 minute read

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People participating at the Brownstone Institute Retreat understand what is happening. It was a relief to be reminded that a wide range of committed and highly intelligent people understand the critical importance of challenging and interdicting what is being attempted. This resistance to power was a theme that ran through many of the presentations and discussions we experienced at the Retreat. I feel privileged to have been a part.

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The Political Hierarchy of Infection

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 12, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 6 minute read

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We preach non-discrimination, equality, and democracy, but when confronted with what seemed to be a potentially mortal threat to our health and lives, we reverted back to pre-modern forms, almost overnight creating a new caste system, shoving the lessers among us in front of the virus to keep the elites pure and clean.

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Wartime Parallels: Iraq and Covid

Ramesh Thakur / February 15, 2023 / History, Media, Policy / 6 minute read

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First, the resort to emotional arguments and moral blackmail generally implies that they have little reasoned argument and evidence to support their case and are deflecting to bluster instead. Second, whenever we are presented with excitable exclamation marks (Saddam Hussein already has weapons of mass destruction (WMD)! He can hit us with WMD in just 45 minutes! Coronavirus could be more cataclysmic than the Spanish flu! The sky is falling!), it is a very good idea to substitute sceptical question marks instead:

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Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff

The Madness of Crowds

Gabrielle Bauer / February 4, 2023 / Psychology, Society / 13 minute read

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As Desmet explains in the book, every totalitarian regime begins with a period of mass formation. Into this tense and volatile mass steps an autocratic government and voilà, the totalitarian state clicks into place. The architects of the new regime don’t go around shouting, “I am evil.” They often believe, to the bitter end, they are doing the right thing.

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The Mysterious Rise in Severe Diseases in Children

Carla Peeters / May 2, 2022 / Public Health, Society / 7 minute read

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The true regulator of health and disease is the innate immune system. From the start of the pandemic scientists have been warning that lockdowns and pandemic measures could result in a waning immune system with a risk for more diseases. The time has arrived.

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What We Knew In the Early Days

Brownstone Institute / November 4, 2022 / History, Public Health / 4 minute read

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We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.

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The Psychological Cruelty of Denying Natural immunity

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 30, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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Take away the knowledge of natural immunity, and thus the realization that there can be a better life on the other side of sickness, and you leave people with existential emptiness and a lasting sense of despair. No one can live that way. No one should have to.

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If We Only Knew

Julie Ponesse / November 28, 2022 / Philosophy / 19 minute read

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Moral endurance is a problem these days. Empathy is low, and not just on the pro-narrative side. I don’t know about you but the feeling I can’t quite ignore or reconcile these days, something I am not proud of as an ethicist or a human being, is a palpable feeling of being numb. Numb to the repetition of history’s atrocities, numb to the laziness of the compliant who helped to create the world in which we now live, numb to inauthentic pleas for amnesty.

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The Art of the Encounter

Thomas Harrington / September 1, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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That still leaves us with 65-70 percent of the population who are not quite ready to accept the reality of the intense disdain our predatory government and corporate elites have for them, and who still want to believe, in some measure, in the possibility of justice and dignity under the rules of the game as currently constituted.

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An Open Letter to the Davos Crowd

Rob Jenkins / February 7, 2024 / Society / 5 minute read

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If the past four years have taught us anything, it is that you “elites” are awful people. Your ideas are awful. Your vision for the future is awful. The society you wish to create, with yourselves in charge, would be unspeakably awful. We reject it, and we reject you. So go away and leave us alone—or else suffer the consequences.

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