Government

Government articles provide in-depth analysis of government agencies and their profound impacts on economics, public health, public dialogue, individual liberty, social life, and personal freedoms.

Brownstone critically examines overreach, surveillance programs, digital ID systems, bureaucratic fraud, public health mandates, international organizations (e.g., WHO), national security policies, and emerging threats like technocratic control and institutional trust erosion. Topics include government-controlled digital IDs, vaccine policy shifts, autism guidance revisions, antidepressant information wars, sovereignty vs. global governance, and pathways to policy reform that prioritize human rights, free markets, and open society.

All government articles from Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages to enable global access, foster international open dialogue, and support readers worldwide in challenging centralized power and promoting evidence-based alternatives.

govern health

WHO to Govern the Health of the World?

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This is the stuff of bureaucrats’ dreams: the legal authority to declare an emergency and the power thereafter to commandeer resources for oneself from sovereign states and to redirect resources funded by the taxpayers of one country to other states. The Covid years saw a successful bureaucratic coup that displaced elected governments with cabals of unelected experts and technocrats who lorded it over citizens and intruded into the most intimate personal behaviour and business decisions.

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What Would We Do Without the FDA and EPA?

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What’s the first thing corporate executives say when their bad behavior and actions are discovered?  “We complied with all government licenses.”  What if they had to face their deeds by themselves?  And what if they knew thousands of eyeballs were watching them, from people who couldn’t be wined and dined, bought off and cajoled?  Bad corporate executives never get punished.  But let some poor farmer put a backhoe in a mud puddle, and he loses his farm.  Or some vitamin therapy genius find an answer to a disease and the system beats him into oblivion.

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Yaccarino

Why Do Friends of Freedom Dread the World Economic Forum?

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Last week, Elon Musk appointed Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter. She has excellent political connections. In 2021, she partnered with the Biden administration to create a Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Free speech activists howled over Yaccarino’s appointment as Twitter boss because she is an Executive Chair with the World Economic Forum (WEF). Here’s the story on WEF, sparked by their most recent annual meeting. 

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The State makes things worse

Life Is Scary and the State Makes It Worse

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People should have eaten well and exercised outside and understood that immune systems are highly effective. They should also have seen how many life experiences they were giving up—or making others give up—by foolishly supporting quackish “mitigation” measures. Hiding in your home or wearing a mask were never going to crush a virus. 

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After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World 

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No question that the administrative bureaucracies would lock down again under the same or new pretext. Yes, they will face more opposition the next time and trust in their wisdom has fallen off a cliff. But the pandemic response also granted them new powers of surveillance, enforcement, and hegemony. The scientism that drove the response informs everything they do. So the next time, it will be harder to restrain them. 

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The Four Pillars of Medical Ethics Were Destroyed in the Covid Response

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Individual patients can and must affect change. They must replace the betrayed trust they once held in the public health establishment and the healthcare industry with a critical, caveat emptor, consumer-based approach to their health care. If physicians were ever inherently trustworthy, the COVID era has shown that they no longer are so.

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WHO a threat

The WHO Has Changed and Now It is a Threat

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We can meekly accept this new disease-obsessed world, some may even embrace the salaries and careers it bestows. Or we can join those fighting for the simple right of individuals to determine their own future, free from the false public goods of colonialism and fascism. At the very least, we can acknowledge the reality around us.

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Biden’s Sham Compassion for His Covid Persecution Victims

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The Biden administration will end the vaccine mandate for health care workers on May 11. But don’t expect politicians and bureaucrats to honor the “First, Do No Harm” rule in the future. Inside the Beltway, federal edicts will likely continue to be “close enough for government work” to sane health care policies.

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Walensky

Dr. Walensky’s Dishonorable Acts

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Even as the pandemic fades, the CDC and the administration have now realized they hold immense power over Americans’ daily lives. Huge numbers of individuals, influential corporations and administrators will outsource their decision making to CDC recommendations. No matter how ineffective people like Walensky have proven to be.

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War and Peace

Time to Read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Toward the book’s end, Tolstoy wrote that “To imagine a man without freedom is impossible except as a man deprived of life.” So true. Imagine if Tolstoy had lived to see what his beloved country had been reduced to. The free thinking libertarian would have been horrified, all the while well aware of why what became the Soviet Union imploded. Do-gooder types and self-regarding politicians (a redundancy, obviously) break things with poverty and blood-soaked battlefields the result. War and Peace makes this all very clear.

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