Source: Brownstone Institute
by Cooper Davis
“During a recent family vacation over lobster, I watched my ‘vote blue no matter who’ aunt-in-law, herself a paragon of New England liberal sensibilities from a leafy suburb outside Boston, argue with her Fox News-watching, burn-it-all-down brother about recent goings-on at HHS. ‘Just because Fauci lied about Covid,’ she said, ‘doesn’t mean all science is fake; there’s something worth saving here.’ Meet J.Crew-Anon: affluent, educated, professional, skeptical but not nihilistic. They still read the Times and the Journal, but also subscribe to multiple Substacks and are daily imbibers of less ‘safe’ publishers, like Brownstone.org. They triangulate. They parse information with friends and peers, seeing fact-checkers as either dangerous or useless or both. They are more interested in steelmanning the opposition than shouting it down.” (09/03/25)