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To Reclaim Our Nature

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2025/10/28

To Reclaim Our Nature by Rev. John F. Naugle at Brownstone Institute On May 8th, the pastor and I gathered in the living room of our rectory to await the announcement of a new pope. After what seemed like forever, the cardinal protodeacon announced the words we had been waiting for: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost, qui sibi nomen imposuit Leonem Decimum

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FDA’s Bizarre Decisions about Nicotine Pouches Lead...

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2025/10/27

FDA’s Bizarre Decisions about Nicotine Pouches Lead to the Wrong Products on Shelves by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute A walk through a dozen convenience stores in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, says a lot about how US nicotine policy actually works. Only about one in eight nicotine-pouch products for sale is legal. The rest are unauthorized—but they’re not all the same. Some are brightly branded, with uncertain ingredients, not approved by any Western regulator, and clearly aimed at impulse

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The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity

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2025/10/27

The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity by Randall Bock at Brownstone Institute Washington is locked in another shutdown standoff over two Democrat demands Republicans will not accept: continued Affordable Care Act subsidies and (separately but related) federal healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants. Those fights are real, but they miss the larger cost driver. ACA subsidies alone amount to only about half of what the nation would save if we returned to pre-1990 levels of mental health

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The Covid Re-Review Project: All Models Are Wrong,...

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2025/10/26

The Covid Re-Review Project: All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Dangerousby Tomas Fürst at Brownstone Institute I welcome Eyal Shahar’s call for a re-review of Covid vaccine papers. In fact, I started long before Eyal blew the whistle — even before the vaccines appeared. At the end of the terrible year 2020, a highly influential paper appeared in Science. It made headlines in major media outlets around the world. The paper, titled “Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against

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Don’t Bail out Soybeans

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2025/10/25

Don’t Bail out Soybeans by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute Question: What does a business do when nobody wants its product or services? Answer: It asks for the federal government to bail it out and pay for a product nobody wants. If this sounds silly to you, consider what’s going on with America’s soybean farmers who lost a quarter of their market when China decided to switch sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in the last couple of months. As a farmer myself, my heart breaks for the

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The Triumph of DIY

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2025/10/24

The Triumph of DIY by Eric Hussey at Brownstone Institute A local headline brought a tear to my eye recently. The warehouse that had been the home of Tormino’s Sash and Glass for decades - a couple of generations - burned in a big fire. Destroyed. The warehouse was no longer in use, had a chainlink fence around it to keep intruders out, and still, the thought is that some variety of homeless people probably are responsible for the fire. The building was scheduled to be demolished, so the major

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Does France Have Independent Media?

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2025/10/24

Does France Have Independent Media? by Renaud Beauchard at Brownstone Institute In a recent appearance on France Inter's morning show—France's rough equivalent to CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper or MSNBC's Morning Joe—American progressive thinker Yascha Mounk found himself in the awkward spot of fact-checking two prominent guests over wild distortions of US conservative figure Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination. Fellow panelist Amy Greene, a Franco-American tied to the unabashedly

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Awais Aftab: A Skilled and Dangerous Psychiatrist...

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2025/10/23

Awais Aftab: A Skilled and Dangerous Psychiatrist Manipulator by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute Some psychiatrists are highly skilled manipulators and therefore dangerous for their patients, as I shall explain below. This applies to Awais Aftab from Cleveland, Ohio. According to Robert Whitaker, Aftab has staked out a position as being open-minded to critiques of psychiatry, which is a public stance that makes him particularly valuable to his profession. He can serve as a defender of

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FDA’s War on Commonsense Nicotine Regulation

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2025/10/23

FDA’s War on Commonsense Nicotine Regulation by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute Cigarettes kill nearly half a million Americans each year. Everyone knows it, including the Food and Drug Administration. Yet while the most lethal nicotine product remains on sale in every gas station, the FDA continues to block or delay far safer alternatives. Nicotine pouches—small, smokeless packets tucked under the lip—deliver nicotine without burning tobacco. They eliminate the tar, carbon monoxide, and

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Is the Extensive US Vaccine Schedule Harmful?

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2025/10/22

Is the Extensive US Vaccine Schedule Harmful? by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The US childhood vaccination programme is huge, 68 vaccine doses targeting 18 different diseases versus only 17 vaccine doses for 10 diseases in Denmark.1 It is unknown if the net effect of so many vaccinations is beneficial, and in August 2025, two physicians launched a federal lawsuit2 against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for failing to study the cumulative effects of its

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Smoke, Mirrors, and the Pfizer Deal

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2025/10/22

Smoke, Mirrors, and the Pfizer Deal by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute I am a mother. I have never been vaccinated myself. I believe deeply in informed consent. And I want to say clearly that I am hopeful about Bobby’s leadership at HHS. I want to believe that he can bring real transparency and accountability to a government that has too often cozied up to the corporations it is supposed to regulate. But when I read the headlines about Trump’s “landmark” deal with Pfizer, I don’t feel

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What Is the State and Who Controls It?

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2025/10/21

What Is the State and Who Controls It? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system. Trump found this out in his first term. He naturally assumed that the president would be in charge, at least as regards the executive branch. He found out otherwise when the agencies worked

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We Stopped Practicing Capitalism

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2025/10/21

We Stopped Practicing Capitalism by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute Nature doesn't lie. If a system isn't found in the natural world, we should question why we were trying to build it. In a world where more and more people seem to hate capitalism and clamor for socialism, I find myself wondering if we've chosen the wrong villain. Capitalism isn't the problem. Maybe it's the closest thing we have to nature. Imagine a small community. Someone opens a business, a bakery, a farm stand,

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Clinical Trials Did Not Show Covid Shots Were “Safe...

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2025/10/20

Clinical Trials Did Not Show Covid Shots Were “Safe and Effective” by Lori Weintz at Brownstone Institute I was a bit familiar, not very deeply, with this mRNA class in my professional work, when these products were in development for other things—severe conditions such as cancer. I knew that these products were inherently dangerous, which isn’t unusual in pharmaceutical research and development. We frequently work on things that are risky and can be toxic, such as chemo agents. Yet, all of a

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Together, Apart

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2025/10/20

Together, Apart by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] I have often wondered what it would have been like in Babel in the early days after its destruction. We don’t know that God actually destroyed the tower but imagination conjures images of people wandering in the dust of the ruins, living in the rubble of failed hopes and broken dreams. “What now?” they must have wondered. One interesting thing about the

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Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own...

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2025/10/19

Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence by Ian Miller at Brownstone Institute [This article was originally published in December 2023.] There’s long been a debate among pandemic realists as to what levels incompetence, malice, and power-seeking played in our Covid response. We’ll never know for certain, though there are certainly strong arguments on both sides, particularly with politicians who seized their opportunity to enforce pointless, authoritarian mandates. And this

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Fauci’s Lies Are Catching up with Him

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2025/10/18

Fauci’s Lies Are Catching up with Himby Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute [This article was originally published in January 2024.] Over the last year, it has become abundantly clear that Dr. Fauci lied and gaslit Senator Rand Paul during sworn Senate testimony during July of 2021, stating "Sen. Paul, you do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially, you do not know what you're talking about." But it turns out that Senator Paul did know what

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A Helpless, Weary, and Traumatized Populace

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2025/10/17

A Helpless, Weary, and Traumatized Populace by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Thomas Harrington’s book,The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.] When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them at all—of the early moments of the premeditated US destruction of Iraq and the ever-smug grin of Donald Rumsfeld. It was Rumsfeld, you will recall, who supposedly

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Too Big to Fail

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2025/10/17

Too Big to Fail by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book,Our Last Innocent Moment.] When you read God’s response at the climax of the Babel story, it might seem like a bit of an overreaction. He spread the Babylonians across the whole earth just for building a tower in the desert? Was it really that wrong to use their ingenuity in this way? Did God feel threatened by the tower, itself, or by their resourcefulness? That’s not likely if you

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Brownstone Institute’s Struggle for a Better World

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2025/10/16

Brownstone Institute’s Struggle for a Better World by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Five years ago, Anthony Fauci warned Americans not to plan any holiday travel. Or parties. Too dangerous. You might catch Covid. You have to stay in your home. Continue living off stimulus payments, upgrading your digital technology with any extra funds. No weddings. No funerals. No Thanksgiving. No Christmas. Shopping only with store capacity limits. Arrows on the floor. Four people per elevator

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