Government

Government articles provide in-depth analysis of government agencies and their profound impacts on economics, public health, public dialogue, individual liberty, social life, and personal freedoms.

Brownstone critically examines overreach, surveillance programs, digital ID systems, bureaucratic fraud, public health mandates, international organizations (e.g., WHO), national security policies, and emerging threats like technocratic control and institutional trust erosion. Topics include government-controlled digital IDs, vaccine policy shifts, autism guidance revisions, antidepressant information wars, sovereignty vs. global governance, and pathways to policy reform that prioritize human rights, free markets, and open society.

All government articles from Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages to enable global access, foster international open dialogue, and support readers worldwide in challenging centralized power and promoting evidence-based alternatives.

lockdown compliance

Why Did People Comply?

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The threat of voluntary lockdowns should lead lockdown sceptics to cast their net beyond the institutions of the State and bring them to confront the harder-to-limn, bottom-up drivers of lockdown like parental socialism. They need to find ways of addressing our collective self-infantilisation and to reemphasize the value and importance of free agency. 

Why Did People Comply? Continue Reading

Scott Gottlieb’s Role in Creating a New Intelligence Office

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Dr. Scott Gottleib has been one of the most influential voices during the COVID crisis. His rapid career advancement and consequent role in the pandemic including lobbying for this new intelligence office during a time when he was NOT working for the government – but rather was working for Pfizer and one of the largest venture capital funds in the world- raises a key question. What is his actual role in the US intelligence community?

Scott Gottlieb’s Role in Creating a New Intelligence Office Continue Reading

pandemic response

A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism 

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The major media is tacitly conspiring with the political establishment, the corporate sector, and the administrative state to pretend like that fiasco was completely normal and also entirely forgettable, not even worth naming. We did the best we could with the information we had so just stop complaining about it! 

A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism  Continue Reading

Dan Andrews

Dictator Dan is Gone

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, who imposed the world’s longest Covid lockdowns on his state, officially steps down from his position today. Andrews earned the nickname ‘Dictator Dan’ for his strongman style of leadership during the pandemic years. He leaves a legacy of brutality, debt, and corruption. 

Dictator Dan is Gone Continue Reading

Fauci CIA

Fauci and the CIA: A New Explanation Emerges

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

If this whole scenario is true, it means that all along Fauci was merely playing a role, a front man for much deeper interests and priorities in the CIA-led intelligence community. This broad outline makes sense of why Fauci changed his mind on lockdowns, including the timing of the change. There are still many more details to know, but these new fragments of new information take our understanding in a new and more coherent direction. 

Fauci and the CIA: A New Explanation Emerges Continue Reading

CISA state

The First Amendment Should Restrain CISA Too

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Cable hosts can bicker over Anthony Fauci, but the source of Covid tyranny was far more insidious. In the shadows, the US Security State undermined American democracy in a technocratic coup d’état. Now, the Fifth Circuit has a second chance to defend free speech against the coordinated assault from CISA and its cohorts at the State Department. 

The First Amendment Should Restrain CISA Too Continue Reading

government propaganda

Yes, You Are Being Manipulated

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

There are literally thousands of peer reviewed studies on vaccine hesitancy and how the government can overcome it. In sum, there are over 6000 such studies on Pubmed. A more narrowly focused search on endnote pulled up about 1250 studies. These studies have a wide range of topics, but most focus on which groups of people are vaccine hesitant, statistics on these populations, as well as how to overcome vaccine hesitancy through propaganda, censorship, the law and behavioral control.

Yes, You Are Being Manipulated Continue Reading

UN declaration

The UN’s New Political Declaration on Pandemics

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The main aim of the Declaration is to back the proposed WHO international health regulation (IHR) amendments and treaty (PP26), key to ensuring that viral outbreaks that have such a small impact can remain highly profitable. An additional $10 billion per year in new financing is requested to support this (PP29). There is a reason why most countries have laws against scams. The UN and its agencies, fortunately for its staff, are outside of any national jurisdiction.

The UN’s New Political Declaration on Pandemics Continue Reading

masking religion

The Religion of Masking 

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Masking restrictions are not a “health power” the state governments are permitted to enforce. Masking mandates are not a public health measure the federal government is permitted to sanction. Both impede life and liberty guaranteed to the People by being human and safeguarded by the People through enforcing our Constitution. As such, the People will not comply.

The Religion of Masking  Continue Reading

Rhode Island Mask

Why is Rhode Island Still Irrationally Targeting School Children with “Masking and Testing” Policies?

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

One of the consistent mercies of the SARS-CoV-2 “covid-19 pandemic,” even at its most virulent initial stages, has been the paucity of serious disease in children generally, and healthy children, universally. Covid-19 always was and remains a very highly age- and comorbid risk-stratified disease that targets the extremely frail elderly—especially those in congregate care—and the otherwise middle-aged to elderly with multiple (for example, ≥ 6!), severe, chronic comorbidities.

Why is Rhode Island Still Irrationally Targeting School Children with “Masking and Testing” Policies? Continue Reading

intelligence community

The Renewed Injunction Neglects the Power of the Intelligence Community

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The Fifth Circuit failed to acknowledge the critical role the intelligence community played in the Covid response and the assault on the Bill of Rights. By reinstating agencies’ power to partner with groups designed to circumvent the First Amendment, the Court risks the continued erosion of First Amendment freedoms under public-private totalitarianism. 

The Renewed Injunction Neglects the Power of the Intelligence Community Continue Reading

Join 30,000+ Independent Readers: Get the FREE Brownstone Journal Newsletter