Commentary Is it possible the United States will lock down again? Is it possible public officials will seek to hold us captive without due process? The World Health Organization (WHO) and European Union have officially teamed up to end the freedom to travel as we know it. The EU boasts that its version of vaccine passports issued during the…

Commentary Trust in public health has been shattered in the wake of COVID. Confidence in government health authorities has plummeted—64 percent rate the FDA as “only fair or poor” and 58 percent rate the CDC the same. Ironically, and in defiance of Americans demanding more health autonomy, Sen. Bernie Sanders has put forth a radical Medicare-for-All 2023 bill to…

Commentary Our governments intend to transfer decisions over our health, families, and societal freedoms to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), whenever he or she declares it necessary. The success of this transfer of power depends on public ignorance of its implications, and of the nature of the WHO itself and its…

Amid the dramatic rise in overdose deaths caused by “tranq dope,” or fentanyl laced with animal tranquilizer xylazine, the White House has announced a national response plan to address the crisis. The plan aims to ensure a 15 percent reduction in xylazine-positive overdose deaths in at least three of four U.S. Census regions by 2025….

Commentary Drug regulators and public health agencies have saturated the airways with claims that serious harms following COVID vaccination are “rare.” But there has been very little scrutiny of that claim by the media, and I could not find an instance where international agencies actually quantified what they meant by the term “rare” or provided a scientific…

Commentary 1.Why this unofficial Q&A? The World Health Organization (WHO) includes a Q&A of its proposed health emergency instruments on its website. This document inadequately characterizes draft amendments that carry significant consequences for basic human rights and democratic process. Therefore, the proposals and their implications are explained further here, based on the WHO’s drafts, to support…

Commentary Here at Porcfest, a week-long celebration of freedom in New Hampshire, there are many hubs of activities, with talks and sessions all day every day, and a central campfire near the pavilion each night. Close by is the large tent for Brownstone Institute where we have had talks and discussions all day and evening….

Commentary International organizations that facilitate an exchange of ideas and data are a global good. However, when these organizations begin to dictate what citizens within a country can and cannot do, they have become something quite different. No self-respecting totalitarian dictatorship would ever allow such interference with their own rule, while no rational democracy would…

Commentary It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of…

Commentary As COVID-19 blazed its path across the world, it sparked an insatiable demand for hand sanitizer, creating a frenzied market that had more in common with a gold rush than a public health measure. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stepped in, relaxing regulations to meet this spiraling demand. However, this decision, akin…