Revenge of the Praetorian Guard

They will not go down without a fight

The chaos and confusion of our times are like none we’ve lived through in the past. They touch on every area of life: culture, science, medicine, economics, religion, education and even basic issues of security. And you know our view: all of this was kicked off in the Spring of 2020 though the conditions were in place long before. 

Brownstone works daily to provide research and guidance in hopes that the crisis will abate and normalcy will be restored. Sadly, people have largely forgotten what “normal” even means. That’s how dramatic our situation truly is. The truth is getting out there, despite every attempt to suppress it. 

However, getting from here to there is not a straight path. Last week, we won an extraordinary victory in court over censorship but within 24 hours, the Biden administration has appealed and called for an emergency stay over the injunction against executive agencies. 

Your support for our work has been very generous and we cannot thank you enough! 

Supper Club is on, this time featuring a book-signing party with Thomas Harrington. Join us on July 19th. Also, have you registered yet for our Dallas conference and dinner on Nov 4? We are working on the program now, and it is going to be very special. 

Here is some content since our last email:

Revenge of the Praetorian Guard By Brownstone Institute. None of us ever wanted to live in a country in which the ruling regime openly expresses opposition to core constitutional rights that many generations of Americans thought were guaranteed by law. The injunction of Missouri v. Biden does nothing other than remind the government of those rights. And this is precisely why the Biden administration so strongly objects. 

The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands By Carla Peeters. The Netherlands has been chosen as a pilot area in the EU to be climate neutral with a transition in protein food and a transformation of healthcare into a telemedicine, data, and AI-driven connected system approach led by Public Private Partnerships. A closure of 55-70 percent of traditional farming is foreseen to be replaced by tech-driven vertical farming, gene-edited crops, edible insects, veganism, 15-minute cities and a CBDC passport covering personal health data.

People Are Questioning? It’s About Time By Mark Oshinskie. Although latter day Americans see themselves as much more sophisticated than their 1950s counterparts, most 2020-22 Americans weren’t insightful enough to ask questions that even malt shop-going bobby-soxers and Wally Cleaver would have asked. By buying into Coronamania, those who thought of themselves as astute and worldly-wise exhibited severe deficits of judgment and of self-awareness.

YouTube Censors Australian Politician’s Maiden Speech to Parliament By Rebekah Barnett. While the Lib Dems are benefiting from the Streisand effect for the time being, Member of the European Parliament, Christine Anderson, is dealing with YouTube censorship by suing the social media platform. Anderson reports that YouTube blocked two videos from parliamentary sessions in which she acted on the official Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The Politicization of Banking and the End of Freedom By David Thunder. Banks would then become instruments of political persecution and totalitarian groupthink instead of institutions devoted to the provision of banking services to the citizenry at large. The price of political dissent would become far too high for many citizens. The public square would quickly degenerate into an echo-chamber of opinions approved by the banking establishment. 

Modern Orthodox Judaism Failed to be Either Modern or Orthodox During Covid By Etan Golubtchik. Modern Orthodox Rabbinic leadership, both in the US and in Israel, were some of the earliest and most dedicated to the warped scientific framework and extralegal approach underlying obedience to the new rules of covid enforcement. Indeed, early on, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County was one of the first religious institutions in the country to voluntarily cancel all religious services, claiming that Jews were religiously required to stay home, well before any government edicts were issued. 

We Landed a Major Blow Against the Censorship Leviathan By Aaron Kheriaty. One naturally wants to believe that an issue one is involved in is of world-historical importance. But as the judge himself wrote in the decision, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” That, my friends, is a strong claim, but as I have previously argued, an entirely accurate one.

How To Create a Fake News Cycle By Pierre Kory. From masks and lockdowns to vaccines and remote learning: Time and again, solutions touted by the media oversold and underdelivered. We may never know how many lives were lost because of the tactics used to suppress ivermectin, but we know we can’t trust the media. That explains RFK Jr.’s rise – and it’s why I wouldn’t bet against him.

Two States, Two Job Markets By Josh Stevenson. It’s well known that employment has impacts on not just an individual’s economic outlook, but their health as well. The idea that we could have somehow suppressed the economy in favor of preventing mortality and impact to health was a false tradeoff. The cost of destroying livelihoods has impacts to health and life expectancy.

The Unraveling of the Censorship Hegemon  By Brownstone Institute. At last this court action may finally provoke a debate about the administrative state that embarked on the great silencing. Its machinery seized control of the country in March 2020 in a great turning point in American history. It’s taken more than three years to finally observe a major pushback. The struggle to maintain freedom will always be with us as a great task of every generation.

Doing Nothing Is Not an Option By Brownstone Institute. We cannot save the world but we can do our part. Of course the need for this service – we call it our Fellows program – far outstretches our existing resources. Every few days, we encounter a new case that needs help but we have to delay and make due with what is there.

The Hubris of Bending Modernity to Fauci’s Will By Justin Hart. One might wonder, are they suggesting that we trade our modern conveniences and urban landscapes for a romanticized past where disease still ravaged populations, but we were more “in harmony” with nature? Were stay-at-home orders a proxy for keeping us from trodding foot on nature?