The original vision for Bitcoin was simple: peer-to-peer digital cash, free from banks and government. However, the document argues that Bitcoin is now pushed as “digital gold,” a scarce asset for Wall Street, with slow and expensive transactions for everyday use.
The Hijacking of Bitcoin Read Journal Article
Our food system is not a free market. It is not capitalism in any recognizable form. It is a government-engineered economy propped up by taxpayer dollars at every stage. Each year, more than $40 billion is used to subsidize commodity crops.
The Most Socialist System in America Is the One Feeding Us—and It’s Failing Read Journal Article
We can directly use our resources for the actual burden that remains, and the determinants of good health that freed most of us from them. Unfortunately, such evidence-based approaches predominantly help those with poor ability to pay.
The Importance of Medieval Rats to Pandemic Profit Read Journal Article
A global climate, health, or development system that depends on the continuous escalation of crisis narratives is structurally incapable of declaring success. Trump’s decision confronts that reality directly. That, more than the budget line, is what has changed.
Trump’s Withdrawal from 66 Organizations Read Journal Article
Brownstone is an organization dedicated to the unfiltered observation of the reality that surrounds us. We took note and learned a great deal, always keeping alive our faith in the essential value of freedom and human dignity.
Five Years in the Defense of Freedom, Critical Thinking, and Human Dignity Read Journal Article
There we have it: three gigantic wins. We’ve learned over five years that the threats to our lives come from strange and often unexpected sources. They can only be defeated with expertise, integrity, and bold action. This is the model that works.
The Week to Start the Revolution Read Journal Article
Pandemics will happen. The world will benefit from an international health organization that can help coordinate rational responses, whilst also assisting in managing other public health priorities. The WHO risks making the latter worse by abandoning a robust evidence-based approach.
WHO’s New Pandemic Approach: Expediency over Evidence? Read Journal Article
The NSS articulates the administration’s national security vision and how the elements of US power will be used in pursuit of national security goals. It is meant to bring the different elements of his international policies into a coherent strategic framework.
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Read Journal Article
They gave undue prominence and praise to the three dissenting ACIP voices and outsiders, who were depicted as experts or scientists. They didn’t check if what the critics of the policy change claimed was correct.
Hepatitis B Vaccination of Newborns: Seriously Misleading Media Reports Read Journal Article
This essay only scratches the surface. The strange moral history of nicotine, caffeine, and acceptable addiction exposes a much larger problem: modern institutions have forgotten how to reason about risk.
Coffee, Nicotine, and the Politics of Acceptable Addiction Read Journal Article
ACIP was still erring on the side of Pharma, which they presumably have to due to the sponsored-Congress problem. They may have got it right, they may not. Now the onus is on someone to do sensible prospective trials.
Everyone Lost at ACIP Read Journal Article
The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.
Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives Read Journal Article
