Jeffrey Tucker

I received a request to sign a petition last week, already signed by 17,000 medical practitioners, many of whom have…

It is not unreasonable to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are being used (without other…

Of course, some academics were notably vocal during COVID19, taking the thesis position – lockdown, school closure, masking, temperature checks…

As professional economists, we have watched the response of much of the economics profession to COVID-era lockdowns with considerable surprise.…

This is the most censorious time of my life.  Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not…

Earlier this year, a phrase was trending because Bari Weiss used it on a talk show: “I’m done with Covid.”…

Certain dates should live in infamy. One is March 7, 2020. That is the date that the Austin, Texas, Mayor,…

Reports from Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1, 2022, are that lockdowns and mandates are done. It was madness…

The Saturday Night Live skit on Covid policy is a welcome relief, a cultural sign that rationality has started to…

The restaurant has not always been with us. It was a product of the birth of the modern. It allowed…

One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy.…

Political leaders in the US, Canada, Germany, and France – all NATO countries – got back on script yesterday. They…

Never before has the public had access to so much data on a virus and its effects. For two years,…

Part of the astonishing power of Noam Chomsky’s 1967 essay The Responsibility of Intellectuals (New York Review of Books) was…

Amidst dark times – a New York Times columnist has called this the “dark century” but he is at a…

With the world reopening, and even US blue states and cities repealing mandates, how optimistic should we be? A little…

When I was a kid — and the same with my parents when they were young — you could count…

In late January, the CDC published a report that made what might have been regarded as a shocking claim. If…

Fifteen years ago, writers schooled in computer science began to imagine various totalitarian schemes for pandemic control. Experienced public health…

With pandemic controls gradually ending, many people have called for some kind of justice to be realized: investigations on the…

All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and…

If there is a historical precedent for the truckers’ revolt in Canada, and the populist protests in so many other…

Just a few days ago, I linked to an epic article in the history of the pandemic response. It was…

The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are…

The national press barely covered the anti-mandate, anti-lockdown rally in D.C (January 23, 2022), and when they did, they mostly…

By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument…

Another day in our strange times: the CDC has finally found a kind word to say about natural immunity. You…

It was two years and a few months ago – only a few months before lockdowns – that I dragged…

We’ll be putting together the timeline of this disaster for many years to come. It all comes down to those…

Jeremy Farrar is a former professor at Oxford University and the head of the Wellcome Trust, an extremely influential non-government…