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SUMMARY:Brownstone Supper Club\, West Hartford\, April 22: Walter Kirn
DESCRIPTION:SHARE | PRINT | EMAILOn Wednesday\, April 22\, 2026\, the beloved West Hartford Supper Club – the first in the nation – is pleased to welcome Walter Kirn\, one of this country’s most respected and adored literary figures. Author of many books\, including Up in the Air\, which was turned into a major film\, Kirn is founder/editor of County Highway\, a Brownstone Fellow\, and the script writer to a new film on disease panic.  \nButterfly is the venue (the real Chinese stuff) with friends of the Brownstone Institute. Come early for cocktails and meet Brownstone Institute friends\, scholars\, writers\, and benefactors\, and celebrate victories and discuss challenges ahead. The food is wonderful and the discussion brilliant. Casual and fun\, even if some people come in fancier clothing. \nWalter Kirn is among the most incisive political\, cultural\, and literary critics in public life today. In the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L Mencken\, he has the broad imagination to think outside prevailing opinion boxes and find the underlying themes. A graduate of Princeton\, he wrote about his educational experiences before turning to fiction and nonprofit\, with books including Thumbsucker and Blood Will Out.  \nKirn has been given no parameters for this private talk\, which is all the better\, so let’s arrive waiting to be surprised. This is your chance to meet a legend. Brownstone’s West Hartford Supper Club is thrilled to welcome him.
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LOCATION:Brownstone Supper Club at Butterfly Restaurant\, 831 Farmington Ave\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06119\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Austin Supper Club April 22\, 2026:  Jenna McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:SHARE | PRINT | EMAILCasa Garcia’s\, 1901 W William Cannon\, Austin TX 78745  \n6:00pm – 9:00pm\nAustin\, Texas\n$55 per person for appetizer\, dinner\, speaker \nPlease join us for an evening of laugh-out-loud conversation and “I feel better already” community with humorist and freedom-fighter Jenna McCarthy. While Jenna has a long and accomplished resume\, she’s probably best known for being constantly confused with that other anti-vaxxer whose name sounds strikingly similar to her own. (Two different people. Just so we’re clear.)  \n  \nAbout Jenna \nJenna McCarthy is an internationally published writer\, corporate speaker\, screenwriter\, two-time TED presenter\, former radio personality\, and the author of more than twenty books including The War on Ivermectin and The War on Chlorine Dioxide\, both with Dr. Pierre Kory. Her writing has appeared in more than sixty magazines (remember those?)\, on dozens of websites\, and in several anthologies including the popular Chicken Soup series. Today\, she pens the popular Substack Jenna’s Side—where she has many\, many opinions—and writes a monthly column for the Independent Medical Alliance (formerly FLCCC). \n  \nAbout the Talk \nIn this fun and lively chat\, Jenna will share her evolution from “sit-down comedian” roasting marriage and modern life to snarky\, no-nonsense voice for a growing army of dissidents battling censorship\, exile\, propaganda\, government corruption\, and the beast that is Big Pharma (*not a sentence she ever thought she’d hear herself write or say). She’ll happily answer questions about her books\, suppressed medical treatments\, “doing your own research\,” whatever fresh nonsense dropped this week\, and how to keep your sense of humor intact when the world looks like a scene straight out of Idiocracy. \n  \nVenue\, Location & Parking\nCasa Garcia’s is at the intersection of W William Cannon and Menchaca.  There is a large parking lot.   We will be in the ‘Party Room’\, which is to the left of the reception / hostess area.   You are welcome to come before 6pm and gather in the bar.  \n  \nRegistration\n$55 per person.  Space is limited so be sure to secure your seat early.  For more information contact Cyndi at cyndi@flourishholisticwellness.com.   Please include “Austin Supper Club” in the subject line.
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsburgh Supper Club\, April 22\, 2026: Mike Costarell
DESCRIPTION:SHARE | PRINT | EMAILDeBlaze at 131 | 131 E Main St.\, Carnegie\, PA 15106 \nWednesday\, April 22\, 2026 6:30 – 9 pm  \n$50 includes appetizers and dinner \n  \nPittsburgh Brownstone Supper Club is pleased to have Mike Costarell present “COVID‑19 at Youngstown State University: A Faculty Account”. \n  \nIn this talk\, Costarell recounts events at Youngstown State University from March 2020 through February 2022\, including his address to the Academic Senate. Drawing on firsthand experience\, he examines how COVID‑era policies reshaped academic governance\, sidelined disciplinary expertise\, and narrowed the space for debate within a public university. \n  \nThe presentation concludes with twelve questions for higher education to confront as it reckons with emergency powers\, institutional conformity\, and whether universities remain capable of open inquiry under crisis conditions. \n  \nMike Costarell was born in the Youngstown\, Ohio area\, graduating high school in 1985 and then Youngstown State University in 1989 with a degree in civil engineering. \n  \nHe then spent the next 5 1/2 years in the United States Navy nuclear propulsion program\, earning qualification as in engineering watch officer\, submarine officer\, and achieved the nuclear engineer qualification. \n  \nFor the next 10 years he worked as a production supervisor\, process engineer\, and energy management consultant. During that time\, he also completed the requirements for the Ohio professional engineer credential and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. \n  \nHis subsequent 20-year academic career had many dramatic periods\, including DEI hiring processes\, negative promotion experiences\, and a departure from the OEA/NEA union. Fortunately\, that contrarian attitude came in valuable during the 2020 campus discussions on Covid 19. As part of his actions and several others\, YSU was one of only two public institutions to not require a vaccine to work or attend classes. \n  \nHe remains unvaccinated and an unashamed supporter of the Great Barrington Declaration.
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