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
We have a proposal in this unfolding milieu. Let’s have a serious, nuanced discussion. Let’s retire labels that have been weaponized against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated for Health and Human Services Secretary, and many people like him.
It’s Time to Retire ‘Misinformation’ Read Journal Article
As we celebrate the nomination and eventual confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya, we will continue to hear “Fringe” describe him. This is nonsense. Lockdowns were a security state-driven pandemic response rooted in fear, panic, and authoritarianism. They were never mainstream.
Lockdowns Were Never Mainstream Read Journal Article
Zuckerberg’s recent statements highlight the dereliction of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kavanaugh, and Justice Barrett in their failure to uphold the First Amendment against the winds of political pressure.
Zuckerberg Vindicates Justice Alito Read Journal Article
The current raging California fires are largely a function of misguided government policies. Officials have essentially curtailed the supply of water available to firefighters, even as they have increased the supply of combustible kindling and vegetation which feeds these wildfires.
Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet Read Journal Article
One thing I can guarantee is that this administration will not be perfect and will not fulfill all of our hopes and dreams. But it may move the ball away from globalism, gender reassignment surgery, wokeism, DEI, ESG, and socialism.
Trump’s Populism in Historical Context Read Journal Article
Technocracy would go further than merely using technical means to govern people, such as surveillance equipment or armoured cars for crowd control; in the true sense of the word technocracy, devices such as AI-robots would be the means of governance.
Technocracy, Fear-Mongers, and the Conspiracy Read Journal Article
The bureaucracy will have to slough off its meaningless bits, the parts that only communicate with other bureaucracies, and the fewer bureaucrats that are left around means the less chance they will invent new work for themselves.
Can DOGE Handle the Bureaucratic Imperative? Read Journal Article
What record labels achieved manually in hip-hop—identifying, redirecting, and commodifying authentic expression—would become the template for digital control. Just as executives learned to transform street culture into profitable products, algorithms would soon automate this process at global scale.
Capturing the Counterculture Read Journal Article
Does this sound to you like a public health emergency worthy of the legacy media’s recent exhumation of discredited Covid-era fear-mongers like Dr. Leana Wen and Dr. Deborah “Scarf Lady” Birx?
The Pandemic Planners Come for Hoof and Hen…and Us Again Read Journal Article
“Temporary” programs in Canada and America rarely benefit their existing populaces. Here’s hoping the incoming Trump administration takes heed of Canada’s abject failure to rein in its permanent “temporary” population and reins in the policies that impoverish the native citizenry.
H-1B Visas: A Lesson from Canada Read Journal Article
An Auburn University study says every single regulator destroys fully 158 private sector jobs every year you keep him on the job. With nearly 300,000 federal regulators, the shock is that we still have any jobs at all.
Every Bureaucrat Destroys 138 Jobs Read Journal Article
