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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsburgh Supper Club\, May 27\, 2026: Shawn & Beth Dougherty
DESCRIPTION:DeBlaze at 131 | 131 E Main St.\, Carnegie\, PA 15106 \nWednesday\, May 27\, 2026 6:30 – 9 pm  \n$50 includes appetizers and dinner \nShawn and Beth Dougherty \nPittsburgh Brownstone Supper Club is pleased to welcome Shawn and Beth Dougherty to share their story of “Ecological Homesteading: A Grass-Fed Approach”. \nWhat will we eat tomorrow? And how safe will it be? A growing concern about the quality of industrial food is generating practical interest in these and other questions. Grass\, the land’s greatest and most renewable resource\, is fundamental to human food production: its source of energy in the moment\, and of fertility for the future. Let us tell you why. \nThe Doughertys have been farming together since the 1980s\, for the last thirty years in eastern Ohio\, where they manage 50 acres\, much of it designated by the state as ‘not suitable for agriculture’. Using grass and intensive grazing as the primary source of food energy\, they raise dairy and beef cows\, sheep\, farm-fed hogs\, and a variety of poultry\, producing virtually all of their food\, feed and fertility. They identify grass conversion\, especially the daily conversion of grass into milk by dairy ruminants\, combined with the integrated nutrient feed-backs that are possible with a diverse community of animal and plant species\, as the key to whole-farm sustainability. They speak\, teach\, and write on the subject of ecological homesteading\, and are the authors of three books: The Independent Farmstead\, One-Cow Revolution\, and Micro-Grazing (to be released in November\, 2026)\, all from Chelsea Green Publishing. Their website is one-cow-revolution.com. \nDeBlaze is an acclaimed bar and grill just 5 miles from Pittsburgh\, located in the heart of Carnegie\, PA\, serving tantalizing Italian pasta made with homemade pasta and sauces\, succulent steaks\, and dishes crafted with locally sourced ingredients. Curated selection of craft beer and top-shelf bourbons for an unforgettable dining experience close to Pittsburgh. \nDrivers coming from Pittsburgh International Airport or further east use I-376 (Parkway West) and then connect to local roads toward Carnegie. \nExit 57 on I-79 is generally the closest direct freeway exit. \nFree parking lot next to restaurant or street parking; stairs only to upstairs meeting room\, no elevator access.
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsburgh Supper Club\, April 22\, 2026: Mike Costarell
DESCRIPTION:DeBlaze 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.
URL:https://brownstone.org/event/brownstone-pittsburgh-supper-club-april-22-2026-mike-costarell/
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsburgh Supper Club\, March 25\, 2026: Dr. Clifford Bob
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an enlightening evening as Dr. Clifford Bob presents “The Fear Industrial Complex”. \nThe U.S. is the world’s most secure country based on its geostrategic\, economic\, and military advantages.  Yet for decades influential voices have claimed that we face existential threats—terrorism\, cyberattack\, Iran\, Russia\, China\, covid\, climate change\, immigration to name only a few of the national security “crises” ostensibly menacing us.  Why has America come to fear so much when we are in fact so safe?  Clifford Bob argues that the source of our anxiety is pervasive fearmongering by a loose-knit network of powerful public and private actors—the “fear industrial complex.”  Its governmental\, military\, and journalistic members—cutting across partisan and ideological lines—mount sustained scare campaigns against the American public.  Whatever the fear du jour\, scare campaigns include four recurrent strategies:  inflation of threats; deflation of American strengths; promotion of questionable panaceas; and enforcement of fear-ridden conformity.  Scare campaigns empower and enrich the panic industrial complex.  But they take an enormous toll on American lives\, liberties\, and pocketbooks.  They make us less secure and less free. \nIn his talk\, Bob will outline the argument and propose ways to counter the power and tactics of the fear industrial complex.  His talk is part of an ongoing book project.  Your comments and suggestions are welcome. \nClifford Bob is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Duquesne University.  He is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion (2005)\, winner of the International Studies Association Book of the Year award; The Global Right Wing (2012)\, which co-won the 2020 International Studies Book of the Decade award; and Rights as Weapons (2019).  In addition to academic articles and chapters\, Bob writes regularly for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other outlets.  Bob holds a Ph. D. from MIT\, a J.D. from NYU Law School\, and a B.A. from Harvard University. \nDeBlaze is an acclaimed bar and grill just 5 miles from Pittsburgh\, located in the heart of Carnegie\, PA\, serving tantalizing Italian pasta made with homemade pasta and sauces\, succulent steaks\, and dishes crafted with locally sourced ingredients. Curated selection of craft beer and top-shelf bourbons for an unforgettable dining experience close to Pittsburgh. \nDrivers coming from Pittsburgh International Airport or further east use I-376 (Parkway West) and then connect to local roads toward Carnegie. \nExit 57 on I-79 is generally the closest direct freeway exit. \nFree parking lot next to restaurant or street parking; stairs only to upstairs meeting room\, no elevator access. \nDeBlaze at 131 | 131 E Main St.\, Carnegie\, PA 15106\nWednesday\, March 25 6:30 – 9 pm\n$50 includes appetizers and dinner \n 
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SUMMARY:Brownstone Pittsburgh Supper Club\, February 25\, 2026: Fr. John Naugle
DESCRIPTION:DeBlaze at 131 | 131 E main St.\, Carnegie\, PA 15106\nWednesday\, February 25 6:30 – 9 pm\n$50 includes appetizers\, dinner and 1 adult beverage \nBrownstone Institute is very pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of the Pittsburgh Supper Club. Fr. John Naugle will be the guest speaker and will talk about: “The Cult of COVID: How Hysteria Scrambled Politics”.  \nHow did Republicans become in favor of the radical expansion of government?\nHow did Democrats become in favor of preventing laborers from going to work?\nHow did Libertarians become haters of liberty? \nJoin us as Father Naugle discusses the COVID hysteria as a religious phenomenon that cut across political ideologies\, and how the ability to resist this hysteria has formed new coalitions which defy prior political categories. \nFather Naugle was early in his opposition to lockdowns\, with his first published piece appearing on Rorate Caeli in April 2020.  \nHe has been an author and occasional panelist for the Brownstone Institute since September 2022. His focus has been both the spiritual harms of our COVID response\, as well as the material harms which have befallen the working class. \nDeBlaze is an acclaimed bar and grill just 5 miles from Pittsburgh\, located in the heart of Carnegie\, PA\, serving tantalizing Italian pasta made with homemade pasta and sauces\, succulent steaks\, and dishes crafted with locally sourced ingredients. Curated selection of craft beer and top-shelf bourbons for an unforgettable dining experience close to Pittsburgh. \nDrivers coming from Pittsburgh International Airport or further east use I-376 (Parkway West) and then connect to local roads toward Carnegie.  \nExit 57 on I-79 is generally the closest direct freeway exit. \nFree parking lot next to restaurant or street parking; stairs only to upstairs meeting room\, no elevator access.
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