In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in...
Jeffrey A. Tucker
The End of the End of Ideology
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like...
A Nation of Non-Compliers
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
The train wasn’t scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the door of the huge elevator leading to the platform. It said that only four people are allowed in because we must all practice social distancing. There was a...
The Triumph of the Apocalyptics
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured Articles
In the course of almost four years, and really dating back a decade and a half, I’ve managed to read most of the writings of the intellectuals, titans of industry, and government officials who constructed the strange reality of 2020 and after. They wanted to conduct a...
A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Sep 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
There is an old expression: “Success has a thousand fathers but failure is always an orphan.” It’s a spin on Tacitus: “This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.” We can judge the results of the pandemic response, then, by the...
The Great Game of Let’s Pretend
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
Two nights ago was supposed to be a night of reckoning and truth. The intrepid and independent journalist Tucker Carlson was to grill Donald Trump, who skipped the GOP debates because he is already the hands-down frontrunner and doesn’t want anything to do with...
The Questions Crying Out for Answers
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 23, 2023 | Featured Articles
The conspiracy of silence is obvious. Both political parties like it. The media likes it too because it was a main participant. Academia is compromised as much as the social media companies. Government bureaucrats want the entire fiasco to be a thing of the past,...
The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 17, 2023 | Featured Articles
Before the COVID lockdowns, social media companies had started contracting with new third-parties organizations called fact-checkers to assist in “content creation.” Getting a pass meant the post or story was amplified but getting dinged for inaccuracy meant that the...
Sorry, This Is Not Going Away
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | May 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
The kids are two years behind in education. Inflation still rages. White-collar jobs are disappearing thanks to the reversal of Fed policy. Household finances are a wreck. The medical industry is in upheaval. Trust in government has never been lower. Major media too...
How They Convinced Trump to Lock Down
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
An enduring mystery for three years is how Donald Trump came to be the president who shut down American society for what turned out to be a manageable respiratory virus, setting off an unspeakable crisis with waves of destructive fallout that continue to this...
Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something That Does Not Matter
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured Articles
Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it’s been quite a wild ride. Thousands of doctors and scientists have been unbanned and are now speaking. Same with journalists. Accounts that posted against Covid restrictions and mandates are now unthrottled. Brownstone’s...
The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
The latest of the Twitter Files is reported by Alex Berenson, who was granted access to messaging systems from the times before Elon Musk took over. His first round of reporting concerns the role of Scott Gottlieb, who is a perfect example of an influencer who is...
How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
From the beginning of the Covid panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights. What made it more bizarre was how...
We Are Still Locked Down
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Dec 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents from the operations of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. This weekend’s release was especially shocking. It revealed a close and symbiotic relationship...
What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust. It became quickly obvious to him and others on his team that it was she who drove the censorship policy within the...
They Will Lock You Down Again
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
The lords of lockdown barely escaped their worst possible fate, namely that the topic would become the national and international source of scandal that it should be. And let’s add the vaccine mandates here too: even if such had been morally justified, which they were...
No Amnesty for Lockdowners
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Now that we can talk to our friends and neighbors about it, the reality is sinking in. What our public-health experts and politicians did to this country was egregious. Inspired by the totalitarian lockdowns in Wuhan, China, and urged to replicate that policy by the...
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
It’s been more than obvious since April 2020 that lockdowns were far too costly for individuals and society and could never earn a rational public-health defense. And the evidence was rolling in from one year later that the vaccine mandates were similarly...
Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
[Kushner: On March 11, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence asked for my help with the COVID response. I called my friend Nat Turner (left) and Adam Boehler (far right), successful healthcare entrepreneurs who helped me procure lifesaving supplies and equipment from around...
How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power thereof. Without that focus, no reform effort can get anywhere. That is surely a main takeaway from the trauma of our times. The solution has to be...
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