George O’Har brownstone.org George O’Har is an MIT Ph.D., Air Force veteran, and former electrical engineer. At Boston College, he taught courses on Literature and Technology, Utopia, Creative Writing, Creative Non-Fiction and American Literary History For the last 27 years I have been a professor at
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. Along with fellow scholars at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, I sent a letter today to Department of
As the BFD’s Cam likes to say, we are #ledbydonkeys. The concatenation of failures, fuck-ups and jaw-dropping foolishness that has been our “leadership” over the last three years, who could doubt otherwise? Remember, these are the global elite who believe themselves to be our meritocratic “Guardian” class, envisioned by
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com In February I submitted an official information act (OIA) request for details of expenditure on Covid-19 advertising and messaging by the New Zealand Government. I received a response on 15 March and not surprisingly it was incomplete. The full response, with my request embedded within
Leighton Smith Podcast Episode 147 BFD writer Dr Michael John Schmidt writes a weekly column for The BFD From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale. Listen to his interview with Leighton below. Leighton reads from a couple of Mike’s articles/ letters to the editor published both on
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Voices for Freedom voicesforfreedom.co.nz What a funny old time it is to be alive right now. More and more people are awakening to the truth as reality unfolds before their eyes. People are seeing that the promises made regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccine have been
Imagine you had the freedom to choose whether or not to get vaccinated. Imagine a New Zealand where ‘Unite Against Covid’ advertising doesn’t appear on MSM, social media, billboards and buses and isn’t written or talked about either. In other words, a perfect world, perfectly neutral about what
[…] some of the COVID-19 restrictions we face – like vaccine passes – could be dropped come April. […] The Government will also reconsider the restrictions Kiwis face too as Omicron spreads like wildfire. We still have a lot of COVID-19 rules in place that not everyone’s abiding by. […] The days of vaccine
BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE From early in the pandemic, once the confusion over testing had been sorted out, there seemed to be universal agreement on the following. We need vast testing. When someone tests positive, there should be a concerted effort to seek out those with whom the person had contact. Those
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Gabrielle Bauer brownstone.org Gabrielle divides her time between writing books, articles, and clinical materials for health professionals. She has received six national awards for her health journalism. She has written two books—Tokyo, My Everest, co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Prize, and Waltzing The Tango, finalist in the Edna
The Government’s move to bring forward the reopening date to international tourists is overdue but welcome news, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop and Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay say. “It’s pretty simple – the risk isn’t at the border anymore and allowing fully-vaccinated travellers to come to
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister is holding on to Covid-19 longer than the saga of whether Ross and Rachel were on a break. We know Jacinda Ardern loves standing at the podium and making announcements. We know she needs Covid-19 to keep voters in a state of
Has the death count from Covid-19 been exaggerated? A new announcement from medical bureaucrats in the US only deepens well-founded suspicions. This US announcement joins the recent quiet — while we’re all distracted by the Ukraine war — announcement by Ashley Bloomfield that New Zealand is also reviewing its covid death
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s Covid-19 response has always followed the science – political science. Three days after a TVNZ poll found 75 per cent of voters believed we should open the borders to negative tested travellers immediately, Labour has brought its reopening date for visitors forward by six
