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The Kids Are Not Alright

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2025/07/07

The Kids Are Not Alright by Jason Strecker at Brownstone Institute This was another week in what has become a regular occurrence: being contacted by concerned parents seeking advice on why their school is spiraling out of control, with their kid being caught up in the collateral damage. The feeling is akin to a song the 90s rock band Offspring composed but brought sharply into focus in 2025, The Kids Aren’t Alright, but neither are the parents and schools. I want to offer my observations as

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We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our...

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2025/07/06

We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Livesby Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Dr. Thomas Harrington’s book,Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.] I don’t know about you, but long ago I learned how to recognize when I was suffering from a cold or flu, and how best to prevent myself and others from suffering from its most deleterious effects. I developed knowledge in this area by simply watching and listening

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The Documents Speak. And They Tell a Very Different...

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2025/07/05

The Documents Speak. And They Tell a Very Different Story. by Kim Witczak at Brownstone Institute When my husband Woody died by suicide in 2003, nothing made sense. Everyone around me said the same thing:“He must have been depressed.” But I lived with him. I knew him. And in the deepest part of me, that explanation didn’t fit. Woody was outgoing, high-functioning, driven, and fully engaged in life. He was training for a marathon, logging his miles, showing up for work, and showing up for

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Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and...

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2025/07/04

Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and Long Overdue by REPPARE at Brownstone Institute Introduction The global health world is struggling. For the past two and a half decades, it has been based on a model of ever-growing funding, channelled from the taxpayers and investors of wealthy countries, through intermediary organizations mostly staffed from the same countries to recipient nations who have far lower income and limited health infrastructure. This model has saved lives, yet it

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Defunding Gavi: An Important Step Toward Decolonization?

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2025/07/03

Defunding Gavi: An Important Step Toward Decolonization? by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The primary reason people in wealthy countries live longer than those in poorer countries is that they have better sanitation (e.g. clean water, hygiene), nutrition (especially fresh food), living conditions (e.g. housing), and access to basic healthcare – like antibiotics for childhood pneumonia. This should be uncontroversial – it was taught in medical schools a few decades ago when evidence formed

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Kennedy and Medical Wearables: A Clarification

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2025/07/03

Kennedy and Medical Wearables: A Clarification by Charles Eisenstein at Brownstone Institute Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s remark in a Congressional hearing last week that “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years” stirred an uproar in MAHA circles, as one influencer after another scrambled to denounce his statement and accuse him of being a sellout or a traitor. Ignoring his staunch decades-long advocacy of civil liberties, these critics took his statement as proof

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Why Organizations Die While Cities Live Forever

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2025/07/02

Why Organizations Die While Cities Live Forever by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute Why do organizations and companies die while cities seem to live on? Why did the Western Roman Empire end in 476 A.D while the Eastern counterpart lasted for almost another 1,000 years? Although both Empires fell, many of the cities in both have continued to the present. Why? While the answers can be approached on multiple levels: cosmological, theological, physical, political, etc., this essay will

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Zohran Mamdani—Bastard Son Of 33 Liberty Street

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2025/07/02

Zohran Mamdani—Bastard Son Of 33 Liberty Street by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute Sure, Zohran Mamdani, surprise winner of the Dem primary for New York City mayor, is an ultra-left-wing wackadoo. But it occurs to us that this veritable assault on sanity— via the election of a 33 year-old nincompoop who wants rent controls, free day care, communist grocery stores, and confiscatory taxes on the wealthy who already pay most of NYC’s income taxes—deserves a more profound rebuke than the one

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Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV...

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2025/07/01

Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Last week’s meeting of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel was unlike any in recent memory. It was the first full session of the new-look Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—a panel now entirely handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and tasked with restoring public trust in vaccine policy. Over two days, the committee tackled thorny topics

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The Plot to Get RFK

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2025/07/01

The Plot to Get RFK by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute An apparent leaked minutes document suggests that a trade association held a meeting in April to undo the confirmation of Kennedy by the duly elected US Senate. It is embedded below. Caveat and Clarification All references to individuals, statements, or actions attributed in the leaked minutes of the BIO Vaccine Policy Steering Committee meeting held on April 3, 2025, should be understood as excerpts from an internal document

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“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi

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2025/06/30

“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ramesh Thakur’s book,Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled the Expansion and Abuse of State Power. The evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns is underwhelming; for the harm they cause to lives, livelihoods, mental health, and civil liberties is overwhelming. Neither claim needs further substantiation for readers of this site. Still the relentless march of

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A Translation Guide to Progressive Slavespeak

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2025/06/30

A Translation Guide to Progressive Slavespeak by David Thunder at Brownstone Institute I propose that we accompany physical detox with a verbal detox: we need to purge our bloated vocabulary of several concepts that are poisoning our understanding of ourselves and the world. These concepts have been elaborated by people who would describe themselves as “self-aware,” “progressive,” and “liberated,” but they are actually terms more fit for a society of slaves than a society of free persons

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Surviving Psychiatry

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2025/06/29

Surviving Psychiatry by Rebekah Barnett at Brownstone Institute It’s hard for me to write about about Laura Delano’s new bookUnshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistancewithout getting personal because for much of the book I felt like I was reading my own story. Longtime readers of this Substack know I have in the past dealt with what we politely call these days ‘mental health issues,’ a journey which involved a severe eating disorder, depression, and nearlya decade on

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The Coward’s Bargain

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2025/06/28

The Coward’s Bargainby Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute Everyone's Afraid to Speak Someone our family has known forever recently told my sister that they've been reading my Substack and that if they wrote the things I write, people would call them crazy. I got a kick out of that—not because it's untrue, but because it reveals something darker about where we've ended up as a society. Most people are terrified of being themselves in public. My sister’s response made me laugh:

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FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof...

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2025/06/27

FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hundreds of drugs without proof that they work—and in some cases, despite evidence that they cause harm. That’s the finding of a blistering two-year investigation by medical journalistsJeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee,publishedbyThe Lever. Reviewing more than 400 drug approvals between 2013 and 2022, the authors found the agency

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A Blueprint for NIH Reform

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2025/06/27

A Blueprint for NIH Reform by Martin Kulldorff at Brownstone Institute Abstract Both scientists and the public are frustrated with the scientific enterprise. Scientists spend considerable amounts of time writing grants that are not funded. The publication process is tedious. There is a lack of open scientific discourse, leading to questionable medical and public health practices and an increasingly distrustful public. Change is needed, and this Perspective presents a blueprint for NIH reforms

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From the Sublime to the End of the World

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2025/06/26

From the Sublime to the End of the World by Richard Kelly at Brownstone Institute I’ve read C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man a few times now, the last three times almost back to back. I found one point so compelling that I had to read the book over and over again to make sure I hadn’t misunderstood, or overlooked something, or got the wrong end of the stick entirely. I still don’t quite understand how a mortal being could be so prescient and utterly right: What we call Man’s power over Nature

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Fractured Realities

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2025/06/26

Fractured Realities by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute We used to share the same lies. Now we each get our own. Soon, we may not even agree that reality exists. Reality has been shattered into billions of pieces, each one perfectly tailored to fit someone's worldview. The same event triggers completely different movies in our heads. The same evidence proves opposite truths. We're not just disagreeing—we're living in different universes, each one feeling absolutely real to the person

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New Covid Wave Scare Campaign: A Massive Flop

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2025/06/25

New Covid Wave Scare Campaign: A Massive Flop by Rebekah Barnett at Brownstone Institute Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway in Australia. Like the Marvel franchise, the entertainment content exists largely to create demand for merchandise. Unlike most Marvel films, this latest virus fear-mongering drive is turning out to be a massive flop. The hook:There’s a new “highly contagious” Covid Omicron subvariant in

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Did AI Almost Start World War III?

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2025/06/25

Did AI Almost Start World War III? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute Recall that the Covid fiasco went into overdrive when Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London generated a wildly incorrect estimate of the fatality rate of the virus from China. He had two forecasts, one without lockdowns (death everywhere) and one with (not terrible). The idea was to inspire the replication of the CCP’s extreme methods of people control in the West. That model, first shared in classified realms,

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