It’s Wonderful Madness Out There
Looking back, the Covid response was the apotheosis of state planning. It failed so badly that the whole of scientific planning as we know it is being taken down. That’s glorious.
BY BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE
Looking back, the Covid response was the apotheosis of state planning. It failed so badly that the whole of scientific planning as we know it is being taken down. That’s glorious.
Consider:
330,000 federal bureaucrats are now fired, resigned, or retired, bringing government employment to lows not seen since 1966.
The Trump administration just repealed the “endangerment finding” such that “climate change” as an excuse to manage the world is effectively defunct.
You can now search millions of HHS records on Medicare to discover fraud; the problem was so huge that DOGE has outsourced its efforts.
The Epstein files release gives everyone with a laptop a tool to discover a shadowy world of overclass decadence and corruption.
The childhood immunization schedule is being trimmed while Rand Paul is pushing to end liability protections for the vaccine industry.
The FDA just told Moderna to take a hike: the agency will not consider approval of the latest mRNA injection.
Do you see the pattern here? It’s all about dethroning the elite institutions and intellectuals who wrecked the world as we know it. Their schemes are all unraveling in real time.
These are the sorts of topics we talk about at Brownstone Supper Clubs, now coast to coast. Pick one and go!
Charlotte, NC: On Tuesday, February 17th, the inaugural Charlotte, NC Supper Club welcomes Cammy Benton, MD. Get tickets.
W. Hartford, CT: On Wednesday, February 18th, the West Hartford Supper Club welcomes Ann Bauer. Get tickets.
Pittsburgh: On Wednesday, February 25th, the inaugural Pittsburgh Supper Club welcomes Fr. John Naugle. Get tickets.
Austin: On Wednesday, February 25th, the Austin Supper Club welcomes Delia McCabe, MD. Get tickets.
St. Cloud, FL: On Saturday, February 28th, the inaugural St. Cloud, FL (Orlando/Kissimmee area) Supper Club welcomes Rob Younkins and Nicole C. Scott. Get tickets.
Boston: On Tuesday, March 3rd, the Greater Boston Supper Club welcomes Cecelia (Cece) Doucette. Get tickets.
Midwest: On Monday, March 9th, the Midwest Supper Club welcomes Dr. Allon Friedman. Get tickets.
Puget Sound, WA: On Tuesday, March 17th, the inaugural Puget Sound, WA Supper Club welcomes Bret Weinstein. Get tickets.
Pittsboro, NC: On Wednesday, March 18th, the inaugural Pittsboro, NC Supper Club welcomes Dr. Sheila Furey. Get tickets.
Chicago: On Thursday, March 26th, the Chicago Supper Club welcomes Dr. Patricia Robitaille and Dr. Coleen Rickabaugh. Get tickets.
Chattanooga: On Tuesday, April 7th, the inaugural Chattanooga, TN Supper Club welcomes Debbie Mize. Get tickets.
Polyface Farm: On Friday and Saturday, August 28th and 29th, Brownstone will host our annual Polyface Retreat at Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. REGISTER NOW.
Chattanooga: On Friday and Saturday, November 6th and 7th, Brownstone will host our 6th Annual Conference and Gala. Save the dates.
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As part of pushing the public mind in the right direction, Brownstone Institute’s new weekly show has kicked off with major thinkers and doers behind the growing community of resistance. Our interview with the novelist and critic Walter Kirn has been an enormous success on all channels.
Here is some content since our last email.
The Great Harris Coulter By Dana Ullman. Books on history are written by the “victors;” that is, by the dominant paradigm, and such books give an inadequately accurate view of history. The books written by Dr. Coulter are therefore a refreshing and even compelling review of medical history.
Closing the Deal: The Misinforming of the G20 on Pandemics By REPPARE. There was a time when the aspirations of Alma Ata drove public health. If the nations of the G20 seek a more stable world, returning its public health approach to evidence and reality could be a step forward.
Is the MAHA Movement Building a Genuine Counter-Elite? By Renaud Beauchard. That new elite prototype has started to take shape inside the MAHA movement. It might not yet be a fully formed counter-elite, but it certainly looks like a promising kind of one.
The Problem with America First Global Health By Roger Bate. The problem with the America First Global Health Strategy is not that the US is engaged abroad. It is that Washington has wrapped a sprawling, path-dependent set of programs in a nationalist label without doing the hard work that strategy requires.
Book Review of No More Tears: the Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson By Alan Cassels. Johnson & Johnson’s reputation comes under fire in Gardiner Harris’s new book No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson. He delivers an impressively-researched catalogue of fraudulent activities in the marketing of drugs and medical devices.
The Reason for Death Rituals By Reverend John F. Naugle. Remembering death isn’t optional. Refusing to remember death is what opens the mind to escapism of transhumanism, of which lockdowns and mandates were mere symptoms. Let us remember to die.
The Genie in the Bottle: Vaccine Rites By Daniel Polikoff. The “reign of quantity” (Guenon) helped set the Great Reset agenda in motion. The human body—that sacred temple of spirit, that privileged site of the sovereign freedom of the individual person—was mercilessly reduced to sets of numbers.
Epstein’s Gates to Pandemonium By Jordi Pigem. Epstein brings to mind a darkness that involved horrible violence to children and, most likely, explicit invocation of powerful evil forces. Gates and Epstein, pandemic and pandemonium, may be closer than we thought.
Pity the College Kids By Christine Black. I wanted to hear from other college students around the country about what happened to them during the Covid period. These young people are our future doctors, lawyers, teachers, writers, parents, politicians, business owners. From different sources, I gathered stories.
The Silence of the Waiting Rooms By Joseph Varon. The waiting rooms are quiet now. Yet, in the face of this silence, there is hope—an opportunity for action. By reaching out to local representatives, supporting community clinics, individuals can contribute to turning the tide.
The Hijacking of Bitcoin By Aaron Day. The original vision for Bitcoin was simple: peer-to-peer digital cash, free from banks and government. However, the document argues that Bitcoin is now pushed as “digital gold,” a scarce asset for Wall Street, with slow and expensive transactions for everyday use.
The Third Period: My Covid Speech in the Czech Parliament By Tomas Furst. We owe understanding, catharsis, and lessons learned to the thousands of people whom we allowed to die during Covid and to their loved ones. We owe it to our children whose education, social life, and mental health we significantly disrupted.
Nipah Virus and the New Public Health Order By David Bell. A large outbreak of hysteria occurred in the media over the past week, regarding a small Nipah virus outbreak in eastern India. ‘Hysteria’ is the correct word in terms of proportionality. It is not the right word in terms of intent.