Before the big news, two events:
“The Great Restoration: Conference and Gala,” Saturday, December 3, 20220, Miami, Florida, featuring so many other of your favorite writers and thinkers.
Our monthly supper club in West Hartford, Connecticut, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, is open for reservations.
The big news is the naming of Brownstone Fellows 2023, thanks entirely to your generosity! We are so very pleased to provide support for research, writing, and speaking from these incredible people.
Here is some content from this week.
Where’s BioNTech? The EU Parliament’s “Pfizer Hearing” Farce By ROBERT KOGON. The problem is not corruption. It is rather a flagrant conflict of interest that was built into the EU’s authorization and procurement process right from the start, but that remains invisible so long as BioNTech is ignored. This is presumably why the company was persona non grata at the hearing of the EU Parliament’s committee on Covid: officially known as the COVI (sic) Committee.
Lockdowns: The Great Gaslighting By MICHAEL SENGER. More than two years since the lockdowns of 2020, the political mainstream, particularly on the left, is just beginning to realize that the response to Covid was an unprecedented catastrophe.
Kheriaty vs. University of California By AARON KHERIAT. Why did I file a lawsuit in federal court against my own employer? I had nothing to gain personally by this and a lot to lose professionally. I decided I could not stand by and watch the ethical disaster unfold around me without attempting to do something. In my position as Director of Medical Ethics at UCI, I had a duty to represent those whose voices were silenced and to insist upon the right of informed consent and informed refusal.
Musk Takes Over Twitter: Finally Some Fun By ROBERT MALONE. I must say, it feels so good to see those corporate heads roll right off of Twitter. Of course, they all left with fat bonuses for all their efforts in thwarting the sale. There is no justice in life.
Fact Checkers on Viral Transmission: They Get It Wrong Yet Again By THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON. The trial results have from the start been used to justify draconian attacks on and exclusion of unvaccinated people, for a long time the 95% efficacy claim was relentlessly touted to support mass-vaccination, and those who doubted this, pointing to actual data, immediately became the targets of “fact-checkers” like Madison Dapcevich and were subsequently censored by social media, smeared and ostracised.
NY Supreme Court Orders Reinstatement of All Unvaccinated Employees with Back Pay By MICHAEL SENGER. The city has stated that it is appealing the order. But the ruling is a major blow to the public health regime, as the judiciary slowly begins to unravel the veil of pseudoscience that’s characterized the entire response to Covid-19.
The Media Ignored the Parliamentary Debate on Vaccine Safety By MOLLY KINGSLEY. One does not have to agree with all of the points made by the MPs, and one does not have to dispute the fact that the vaccine rollout saved lives, to understand that questions raised by elected politicians in this debate – around the scale of adverse events, potential breaches of medical ethics and regulatory capture – are serious.
Remember Those Who Cannot Speak By JEFFREY A. TUCKER. Remember this: every article you read on this site represents the views of thousands of learned and concerned people who are not in a position to speak. Every author here has taken risks and knows the stakes of the debate in which we find ourselves at the center. There is a silent group out there of highly intelligent people who are deeply grateful to all our supporters for making this opportunity to speak truth to power possible.
Xi Jingping Is Reminded that Markets Don’t Like Central Planning By JOHN TAMNY. The Hang Seng correction is a reminder to politicians and pundits the world over that markets are much more powerful than politicians, and they’ll speak their mind in ways that shame those so foolish and so arrogant as to believe that prosperity can be planned. It’s a warning to Xi Jingping, but also a warning to conservatives who should know better, but who presently think that the answer to state planning is more state planning.
Preferred Pronouns Lit the Path to Covid Science Denialism By RAMESH THAKUR. The idea behind the move to preferred pronouns is that everyone’s own conception of their gender identity deserves the protection of law. The unintended and perverse yet entirely predictable consequence is that the wilful suspension of biological reality with pretend facts is a threat to women.
The Shame of the Covidians By THOMAS HARRINGTON. Understanding all this makes it easier to think of those who provided the vociferous support for the government-imposed destruction of freedom of association, commercial freedom, bodily sovereignty, mass firings, record-shattering numbers of injuries and deaths and who knows how many future health complications with a greater degree of forgiveness and compassion. But I’m not there yet.
Jeffrey Tucker Speaks at Hillsdale College By Brownstone Institute. On October 20, 2022, Jeffrey Tucker spoke at Hillsdale College on the topic of the economic destruction of lockdowns and vaccine mandates. An adapted version of the speech is the October issue of Imprimus, the college publication that goes out to 6 million subscribers. The talk was all recorded by the college.
Fauci and Others Will be Deposed By AARON KHERIATY. It looks like this case may continue to get more interesting. Stay tuned here for more updates. And in the meantime, don’t be afraid to say what you actually think online — with decency and civility, of course, but without suppressing what you know or believe to be true.
Did You Join the Conga Line? By ERIC HUSSEY. Empathy for small business owners damaged or ruined by the conga-line in support of lockdowns is almost nonexistent. Small businesses have been strangled. The owners have lost their dreams. They’ve lost their livelihoods; they’ve lost their savings. And, let’s not forget the last generation from which some of those businesses were purchased. That prior generation has lost their retirement plans.
Had Enough Yet? By BOBBIE ANNE FLOWER COX. This simple question, “Had enough yet?” makes you stop and pause to think about your life: how it is going, do you feel safe, are you struggling to pay bills, are you stressed, if so, what is the source of that stress, and so on… And then it makes you realize that if you are unhappy with the world around you, then you need to change it.
Why has the Church Not Spoken Out? By JOHN LINCOLN DOWNIE. In this more recent attack, truly, who would have ever dreamed that the very medical establishment we all depended on and trusted in for caring for us, for healing us would be transformed at the “speed of science” into one of the most efficient means of subjecting entire nations under a medical dictatorship and subjugating the global population through medicine? Honestly, who had ever thought this could happen?
A Wellesley Student Speaks Out By ANON. WELLESLEY STUDENT. If Wellesley—or if any one of the other institutions with remaining vaccine mandates—thinks it faces no consequences, it is sorely mistaken: as students, as well as faculty and staff, trace their own adverse medical events back to college mandates, the buck for the physical damage will stop with colleges, morally, legally, and financially.
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word By JEFFREY A. TUCKER. Karma is already turning on the whole gang of coercive totalitarians here and abroad. While the virus is invisible, the people who dreamed up and enforced lockdowns and mandates who wrecked the country are highly visible. They have names and careers, and they are right to be very worried about their futures. First step: apologize.
A Closer Look at the Covid Mortality Rate By IAN MILLER. Economic destruction, increased suicide attempts due to seemingly indefinite isolation, horrifying levels of learning loss, increasing obesity amongst kids, plummeting test scores, increased poverty and hunger, supply chain problems, rampant inflation; all of it is a direct result of policies imposed by terrified, incompetent “experts.”
Covid Added to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule: No Science, No Rationality, No Morality By MICHAEL SENGER. In a ghastly new crime against America’s children the CDC today voted to add Covid mRNA vaccines to the childhood immunization schedule, paving the way for mandates by left-wing school districts.