The lockdowns were and are an intolerable attack on property rights, the freedom of association, free enterprise, and basic rights of trade and exchange that have been a bedrock of a thriving economy since the ancient world. They were also without precedent…

We wish you the best of luck in making your own decision about what medications you choose to take into your body at this troubling time in our nation’s history. 

Uncontrolled opposition is the biggest fear of the political and corporate establishment, even to media conglomerates. Rogan never trained to be a journalist, didn’t climb any social ladders to reach the level of the elites, has never relied on establishment…

Freedom matters—even in a pandemic. Without freedom, elderly people may spend their remaining time on earth isolated from their loved ones, and we know that social isolation kills. Without freedom, people may lose not only their livelihoods but the momentum…

Medicine has a history of pathologizing the very things that connect us most to life on Earth from sunlight to our breath – this is not patient-centered, but anti-human.

Lacking the big-picture thinking and inner convictions to make tough calls, our ostensible leaders let themselves be pushed around by scientists whose ideas they did not understand. Nor did they have the guts to balance them with other measures of societal…

How we navigate the end of mandates determines whether we win our freedom or whether we allow our leaders to normalize a Brave New World with conditional rights that can be turned off again during the next "emergency". 

It shouldn’t be needed, but it is. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has introduced a patient protection bill, so that ‘if you’re in a hospital or long-term care facility, you have a right to have your loved ones there present with you.’

Only individuals themselves have the unique knowledge that all others do not have, about their individual circumstances, constraints, needs and preferences. 

During this time of insanity, some of us went about our lives as best we could and ignored the restrictions. The rest of the world is now coming to terms with the understanding that the “precautions” don’t do much. At best what is going to happen anyway,…

Stay-at-home orders in real life become a class-protection scheme to keep high-end laptop professionals shielded from the virus while imposing the burden of exposure on people who have no option but to be out and about.

Masks are actually part of a very big deal for children, because they interfere with every aspect of normal social functioning.

That such an obvious, settled point of science became taboo is a scandal for the ages. Now we know it was a deliberate decision. Why?

Masks and interventions MUST work, because their preferred, trusted experts and politicians, say they do. Evidence and data be damned.

Norway is the future and the rest of the world needs to get on board and ride this enlightened, public health cluetrain into the next chapter.

Lockdowns and mandates have created a clearer demarcation between the Zoom-class Patricians and the freedom-loving Plebeians.

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Brownstone Institute looks to influence a post-lockdown world by generating new ideas in public health, science, economics, and social theory.

Proponents of masking children deliver their imperatives with such stubborn insistence and glee, one wonders if this obsession crossed the rubric into sociopathic fetish territory.

The re-Enlightenment movement is a natural home for those reimagining how government and politics should work in the future.