Why were we so willing to acquiesce to the draconian lockdowns imposed on us by what Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review called “the Absolute Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking”? And where is the outrage today over everything that was taken away from us by the elites who lied to us for almost three years?

Dr. Phil Magness, Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at Independent Institute, has produced an excellent history of how pandemics over the previous century were handled, concluding that our government “…set aside a century of knowledge for the fashionable and flashy promise of a plan, asking not whether its imagined design will ever work.”

I spoke with Dr. Magness about his essay on The Paul Edwards Program on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Listen below: