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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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Inside the Henry Ford Vaccine Controversy

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2025/10/16

Inside the Henry Ford Vaccine Controversy by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute When an unpublished study from one of America’s most respected hospital networks surfaced in the US Senate last month, it reignited a fierce debate in medicine:are vaccinated children healthier than unvaccinated children? The study, titled “Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children,” was introduced into the Congressional Record on 9 September 2025 during a

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The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling

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2025/10/15

The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling by Paul Thacker at Brownstone Institute Several incidents in the Covid pandemic’s first two years forced me to confront the uncomfortable reality that American society had cracked apart, fleeing the comfort and safety of accepted knowns to float untethered from logic in a foreign ether far from planet Earth. Welcome to Mars. But prior incidents had already trained and prepared my mind to expect a coming derangement. During the Persian Gulf War and

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Charlie Kirk and Socrates

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2025/10/15

Charlie Kirk and Socrates by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute On the Promethean Action website Susan Kokinda has addressed the difference between the globalists driving the attempt to demolish the extant world, on the one hand, and those who are defending a value system which enshrines reason in the best sense of the word, on the other. This specific video discussion is tellingly entitled ‘Why they hated Kirk and Socrates,’ and represents a scorching critique of those who valorise the ‘open

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Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception?

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2025/10/14

Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception? by Lori Weintz at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.] They had a pandemic. They had a technology they couldn’t bring safely to market, and the emergency allowed them to do it…allowed them to go through emergency use authorization, to get people on board with taking it because people were so scared of Covid. It allowed them to basically push aside all

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The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way...

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2025/10/14

The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward by Martin Kulldorff at Brownstone Institute Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed. It embraces open access and open rigorous peer review, it rewards reviewers for their important work with honoraria

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Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era

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2025/10/13

Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era by Robert Billard at Brownstone Institute "A Terrible Record" (John Johnson, Weekly Freeman July 2nd, 1881) In Spring 2020, supposedly “civilized” nations of the world tackled the prospects of how best to subjugate their domestic populations. At this time I was struck by seemingly obvious parallels to another sad chapter in the history of human misery: the Irish Potato Famine. There are many core similarities marking the two calamities. Both evolved

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Trump Covets the Nobel Peace Prize

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2025/10/13

Trump Covets the Nobel Peace Prize by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute Many news outlets reported the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by saying President Donald Trump had missed out (Washington Post, Yahoo, Hindustan Times, Huffington Post), not won (USA Today), fallen short (AP News), lost (Time), etc. There is even a meme doing the rounds about ‘Trump Wine.’ ‘Made from sour grapes,’ the label explains, ‘This is a full bodied and bitter vintage guaranteed to leave a nasty

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The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper

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2025/10/12

The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute This article was originally published in January 2024. Let’s start with two simple axioms: Certain sorts of the mentally ill seek power over others as they cannot control themselves.It’s a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by making their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable; it’s environment as surrogate for self. The anxious and insecure seek out

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The Spirit of Time

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2025/10/11

The Spirit of Timeby Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Sloane’s eighth chapter begins with an interesting observation. He was an expert on old-style covered wooden bridges. Strange passion but stick with me here. He observed that there were always signs on these bridges: “Walk your horse.” Apparently galloping across a bridge creates a rhythmic pattern that weakens the

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Can the Polyface Approach Feed the World?

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2025/10/10

Can the Polyface Approach Feed the World? by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute By far the most common question people ask me is, "Can the Polyface approach feed the world?" Yet another big op-ed piece in theNew York Timeson Sept 28 took this position to marginalize non-chemical agriculture, using the oft-quoted idea that we would need three times as much farmland to produce the food the world needs if we quit using glyphosate and chemical fertilizer. Let's take a walk into history and see

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Javier Milei’s Rallying Cry before the WEF

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2025/10/10

Javier Milei’s Rallying Cry before the WEF by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute [This article is a republication of a Substack post that was originally published in January 2024.] Buckle in, this is a speech for the history books. Summary quotes and the transcript are below the video. Note that “Libertarianism” as used here by Milei is synonymous with the classical liberalism of the US Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson. Life, liberty, property. The term “classical

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Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health

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2025/10/09

Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute Introduction Global public health has long been animated by moral purpose and collective ambition. When nations join under the banner of “health for all,” it reflects both humanitarian conviction and political calculation. Yet, the architecture of global health governance often produces outcomes that diverge from its lofty ideals. The World Health Organization (WHO), its treaties, and its many partnerships

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