This is the Brownstone community: informed, intelligent, eloquent, passionate, far-seeing, and deeply engaged. We are all learning together what it means to make a difference in our own lives and others. This is the way to rebuild the world.
In Praise of Brownstonians Read Journal Article
How amazing it is when we can keep one another alive. How extraordinary it is when we can feed one another. What a revelation it is when we can see one another – not as monsters; but simply as living beings, who are always hungry; for nurture, for understanding, and for love.
Soup Is How We Keep Each Other Alive Read Journal Article
The much publicized CMAJ simulation study is based on assumptions which are known to be flawed. The conclusions may be true in an alternate world where immunity from natural exposure is poor, and Covid-19 vaccine have high efficacy which does not wane; but they certainly do not hold in the real world.
Fear and Loathing of the Unvaccinated Gets Another Boost Read Journal Article
Whatever the reason, the cultural infrastructure that had made life in Australia free, prosperous, and generally good did not protect the country against a mad rush into totalitarianism.
Only Freedom Can Fix a Broken Australia Read Journal Article
It’s taken a long time to get us to where we are and it will take a comparable amount of time and effort to rebuild what we’ve lost. We can make the rational choice to hope for a better future. And we can take little steps toward that future by choosing hope right now.
Hope Springs Eternal…with Some Effort Read Journal Article
I cannot remember the last discussion I had about the Good Life. When we consider that this question has been one of the mainstays of Western intellectual life for more than 2,500 years, its absence from our public is alarming.
We No Longer Ponder the Good Life Read Journal Article
These powerful interests may be part of the effort that sought yet again — yet again! – to take down a critic who, along with my brave and selfless colleagues, is exposing the damage and deception that these interests have inflicted, on innocent people around the world.
Is Naomi Klein “Othering” Me Due to Family Ties to Vaccine Money? Read Journal Article
How will you respond next time you face a moral challenge? Will you walk headfirst into the storm like the bison or turn and drift with it? Have you used the time over the last two years to figure out what matters most to you? What costs have you prepared yourself to be able to bear? Our future depends on what you do, what each of us does, with the little moments we have right now.
The Bison Advantage Read Journal Article
AI is not a future event. It’s a present force. It’s accelerating every system we built—including the one most capable of destroying us. We are choosing between slow, collective reformation and fast, concentrated implosion.
The Prisoner’s Dilemma of AI Read Journal Article
If vaccines were immunizing people then countries that went in big for vaccination should have seen a more favorable CHANGE in their Covid death rates from the first to the second year than was true for the countries that did not vaccinate much. This is the fundamental premise on which the following study is built.
The Big Fail Read Journal Article
