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Never Forget Their Excuses for Lockdowns

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2025/06/02

Never Forget Their Excuses for Lockdowns by John Tamny at Brownstone Institute The worst arguments against the lockdowns inspired by the coronavirus were medical and statistical. To see why, it’s worth remembering that as humans we’ve evolved to protect ourselves from death and disease. The taking of freedom to protect us is always and everywhere excess. The above statement of the obvious requires mention as free thinkers and free-thinking organizations continue to either ignore how they sat

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The Limits of Hospitality

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2025/06/01

The Limits of Hospitality by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute I wonder if anyone has looked at the crisis surrounding illegal, virtually unchecked immigration in the US, UK, and European Union, as well as a country like South Africa, from the perspective of the notion of ‘hospitality.’ Ultimately, one could argue, such ‘immigration’ (or perhaps ‘migration’) is in fact a question of hospitality, as Immanuel Kant already indicated in the late 18th century, when he wrote (in his famous essay

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My Dad, a ‘Good’ Death, and the Unforgivable Covid Era

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2025/05/31

My Dad, a ‘Good’ Death, and the Unforgivable Covid Eraby Scott Morefield at Brownstone Institute We all have to die, but not everyone gets a good death. If there even is such a thing, it’s all up to interpretation. Some would call dying bravely in battle the best ‘good death,’ or religious martyrdom, or a death that somehow furthers an important cause. Others may prefer dying in their sleep, never feeling pain or even knowing they were sick. Underlying it all are the unsaid words

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David Zweig’s New Covid Book Is a Must-Read

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2025/05/30

David Zweig’s New Covid Book Is a Must-Read by Scott Morefield at Brownstone Institute While being in a blood-red county in the blood-red state of Tennessee did, to some degree, protect my family from the bulk of the Covid-related insanity that gripped the world from March 2020 and beyond, we hardly went unscathed. Our governor, Bill Lee, ordered schools closed from mid-March until the end of the school year. When classes resumed in the Fall, most schools, including ours, required and

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A Cancelled Keynote Lecture for Cardiothoracic Surgeons

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2025/05/30

A Cancelled Keynote Lecture for Cardiothoracic Surgeons by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute On 21 March 2025, Peter Licht, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Southern Danish University, Odense, wrote to me on behalf of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), which will have its annual meeting in October in Copenhagen. He expected around 7,000 participants, mostly surgeons, but also industry representatives. Licht was EACTS Past President. He noted that the

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King Squatters

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2025/05/29

King Squatters by Bobbie Anne Flower Cox at Brownstone Institute Imagine this for a moment…You inherit a family member’s house after they pass, and instead of moving in, you decide to sell it. Of course, that takes some time, as you must first get all of the legal requirements dealt with - the will must be probated, the paperwork must be properly executed and in good order, then you need to find a realtor you like, maybe repair a thing or two before placing the house on the market, and so on

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The Long Knives Are Out for Brownstone

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2025/05/29

The Long Knives Are Out for Brownstone by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Events of the last few weeks have shocked Washington’s most powerful. After years of unrelenting lies, some new voices in town have started to tell the truth about the lockdowns, censorship, political persecution, the injections, and the abuse of science. Brownstone Institute has pushed hard for this moment and we hope that we can count on your support to keep the momentum going. We have big plans for the

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Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western...

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2025/05/29

Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western Accomplishments by Gigi Foster at Brownstone Institute The doomsayers of the 1890s saw our cities drowning in horse poop. The doomsayers of the 1930s saw a final battle between freedom and fascism. The doomsayers of the 1950s and 60s saw the Cold War ending in nuclear apocalypse. The doomsayers of the 1980s saw the world about to boil with global warming. The doomsayers of 2001 saw a final reckoning between 1.5 billion Muslims and 2 billion

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The Narcissism Of Tribalism

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2025/05/28

The Narcissism Of Tribalism by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute “A nation divided against itself cannot stand,” said Abraham Lincoln. Sadly, I think that’s precisely the point. I recently flew with my friend Bill Maher to DC, where he was to have dinner with the Bad Orange Man. I was not attending the dinner, I was just along for the ride…but I was wholeheartedly in support of my friend exhibiting the courage to set an example and communicate to his audience (consisting of tens of

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The Gross Fiscal Negligence of the GOP

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2025/05/28

The Gross Fiscal Negligence of the GOP by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute The gross negligence of the Washington GOP with respect to its fundamental duty in the governance process of American democracy—to function as the Watchdog of the US Treasury—seems to know no bounds. Very simply, with current policies fixing to add $22 trillion of baseline deficits over the next decade on top of the $36 trillion of public debt already on the books, the only plausible ”One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB)

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How the US Government Built the Anti-Disinformation...

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2025/05/27

How the US Government Built the Anti-Disinformation Field by Andrew Lowenthal at Brownstone Institute Today,liber-netis launching asearchable databaseof almost 900 US federal government awards to counter mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) and other content moderation initiatives, covering the period from 2010 to 2025. We gave theFree Pressa preview, and today Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowleypublished a storybased on the database, focusing on the more than 600 awards made under the Biden

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To Die Fishing

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2025/05/27

To Die Fishing by David Bell at Brownstone Institute Saving the Dreamers from the Sea A couple of decades ago in the state of Victoria, Australia, the public health fraternity considered the advisability of banning or regulating rock fishing. The authoritarian response to Covid-19 in the same place two decades later was not coincidental. Both stem from a fundamental human desire to control others - to force dictates on them for their own good. Within the current debates on ‘medical freedom’

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How Lies and Hubris Caused an Awakening

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2025/05/26

How Lies and Hubris Caused an Awakening by Pat Fidopiastis at Brownstone Institute In March 2020, the phrase “Fifteen days to slow the spread” was transmitting faster than SARS-CoV-2. At the time, it seemed reasonable to want to buy our health care workers a few weeks to prepare. Contemporaneously, Dr. Anthony Fauci reasonably summarized decades of research in his 60 Minutes interview by saying that masks are not an effective way to block respiratory viruses. In a Snapchat interview, Dr

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Long Post-Vaccination Censorship

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2025/05/26

Long Post-Vaccination Censorship by Eyal Shahar at Brownstone Institute It has been four years since the world was saved, or not, by miraculous Covid mRNA vaccines. It has also been several years since my first letter on the topic was rejected by an editor of a biomedical journal. And my case series of rejected letters on Covid vaccines keeps expanding. The score is now 5:0. The last rejection recently came from the editor of the Journal of Infection, where “Each issue [also] brings you…a

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The WHO Keeps Failing Upward

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2025/05/25

The WHO Keeps Failing Upward by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute The phenomenon of failing upward is only too familiar among the ranks of Australian politicians. People from other countries also come readily to mind as examples, including former US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen. Lately we’ve also witnessed this with an international organisation. The World Health Assembly is the governing body of the World

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Japan Rides the Censorship Bandwagon

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2025/05/24

Japan Rides the Censorship Bandwagonby Bruce W. Davidson at Brownstone Institute The manufacturer of the replicon mRNA Covid “vaccine” in Japan, Meiji Seika Pharma, has brought a lawsuit against a member of the Japanese parliament, Kazuhiro Haraguchi. Haraguchi had commented that the Covid injections are “akin to a biological weapon,” a statement which the Meiji Pharma president claimed was beyond the bounds of acceptable expression. However, statements like Haraguchi’s about the dangers of

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Trump’s War on Leaks: Is Journalism the Next Casualty?

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2025/05/23

Trump’s War on Leaks: Is Journalism the Next Casualty? by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute When Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, he vowed to "end the weaponization of government censorship once and for all." HisExecutive Order—Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship— was welcomed by many, including myself. As a journalist — even one who focuses mainly on medicine, science, and public health — the idea that the federal government would no longer collude with

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In the Name of Health: First Reactions to the MAHA...

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2025/05/23

In the Name of Health: First Reactions to the MAHA Report by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The first report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is out, with a particular focus on children’s health. The relatively short report includes astonishing data on obesity, heart disease, diabetes, life expectancy, substance abuse, mental illness, and many other terribles. The report is a shock, a painful read, a five-alarm fire, and the charts alone are astonishing. It is

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The Deep State Goes Viral: Introduction

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2025/05/22

The Deep State Goes Viral: Introduction by Debbie Lerman at Brownstone Institute The following is the introduction to Debbie Lerman's new book,The Deep State Goes Viral: Pandemic Planning and the Covid Coup. For most of my adult life, I believed pretty much everything I read in the New York Times and heard on NPR. I thought there was a huge difference between Republicans and Democrats, right and left, conservative and liberal. And I was a proud, even self-righteous, liberal leftist

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Why I Came around to Online Learning

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2025/05/22

Why I Came around to Online Learning by Rob Jenkins at Brownstone Institute In May of 2011, I wrote the following words in theChronicle of Higher Education: “Online learning has become the third rail in American higher-education politics: Step on it and you’re toast.” In so doing, I planted my foot squarely on that electrified third rail. Besides being roundly criticized in the comments section, I learned that my administration at the time—which was, unbeknownst to me, planning a major online

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