Jeffrey A. Tucker, Author at Brownstone Institute

Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker June 5, 2023 Economics, History, Policy, Society 14 minute read

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If you haven’t changed your thinking over the last three years, you are a prophet, indifferent, or asleep. Much has been revealed and much has changed. To meet these challenges, we must do so with our eyes wide open. The greatest threats to human liberty today are not the ones of the past and they elude easy ideological categorization. Further, we have to admit that in many ways the plain human desire to live a fulfilling life in freedom has been subverted. If we want our freedoms back, we need to have a full understanding of the frightening challenges before us.

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New CDC Director Is Another Lockdowner

Jeffrey A. Tucker June 2, 2023 Policy 4 minute read

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We are all hoping for a clean repudiation of these policies, and even a flip of the narrative such that participating in this disaster would be a mark against people in terms of career development. We are nowhere near that point yet. It’s the opposite. The regime is still hiring and promoting out of the lockdown party for the future. They cannot admit error and are working to make sure they never have to do so.

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Downton Abbey, the Corruption of the Great Families, and the Future of Freedom

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 29, 2023 History, Media 9 minute read

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Where does this leave us? We only have the intelligent bourgeoisie – products of the middle class that is currently under assault – that is well-read, clear thinking, attached to alternative sources of news, and only now in our post-lockdown world has become aware of the existential nature of the struggle we face. And their rallying cry is the same which has inspired the freedom movements of the past: the rights of individuals and families over the hegemon.

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How Lockdowns Bolstered an Industrial Cartel

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 27, 2023 Economics 7 minute read

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The introduction of digital commerce in the late 20th century threatened a new age of commercial freedom that came to a screeching halt with the lockdowns of 2020. In this sense, lockdowns were not “progressive” at all but profoundly conservative in the old-fashioned sense of the term. It was an establishment fighting to preserve and entrench its power. Perhaps that was the whole point all along.

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Sorry, This Is Not Going Away

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 21, 2023 History, Policy 6 minute read

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Maybe this book by the Covid Crisis Group hopes to be the last word. This will never happen. We are only at the beginning of this. As the economic, social, cultural, and political problems mount, it will become impossible to ignore the incredibly obvious. The masters of lockdowns are influential and well-connected but not even they can invent their own reality.

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After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 15, 2023 Government, Policy, Public Health 17 minute read

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No question that the administrative bureaucracies would lock down again under the same or new pretext. Yes, they will face more opposition the next time and trust in their wisdom has fallen off a cliff. But the pandemic response also granted them new powers of surveillance, enforcement, and hegemony. The scientism that drove the response informs everything they do. So the next time, it will be harder to restrain them.

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The Treason of the Experts: Foreword

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 11, 2023 Philosophy 3 minute read

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Prepare yourself for a real adventure, one that seems often more like fiction than reality. It is inconceivable that a book like this could have appeared only a few years ago. No one would have believed it if it had. But these are extraordinary times and they require extraordinary and brave minds to operate as tour guides, as with Dante and Virgil. The treason of experts has indeed landed us in very dark places but we can see our way out with the truths elucidated herein.

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The Problem of Lost Knowledge: Antibiotic Edition

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 9, 2023 Public Health 7 minute read

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All of this adds up to a grim picture of mass but often preventable deaths, all because the system did not work to incorporate the previously existing wisdom we learned from a century earlier. We needed merely to rely on the known information gathered from previous periods of history. The system utterly failed and for reasons having to do with regulatory capture and mass panic. Instead, they embarked on a population-wide experiment that created an unfathomable amount of suffering. And they still haven’t admitted it.

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America Will Never Give Up Its Ideals

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 6, 2023 History, Philosophy, Society 6 minute read

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The cultural crisis and the pandemic of loneliness, not to mention the mass wave of substance abuse and depression, reflects the country-wide shock that all our fundamental ideals could so easily have been swept aside for a cockamamie central plan that trampled on everything we believe in and have always practiced however imperfectly. It felt like an invasion of the body snatchers, nowhere better symbolized than with vaccine mandates that most intelligent people knew we didn’t need even if they were safe and effective, which they were not.

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The Freezer-Truck Canard

Jeffrey A. Tucker May 1, 2023 History, Media, Policy 6 minute read

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The excuse that we had to lock down because of freezer trucks does not hold water. The lockdown edict was issued on March 16, 2020, following the declaration of emergency on March 13, three days after Trump’s advisers convinced him to issue the lockdown. In that time, the funeral parlors and morgues closed too, as did most all medical services. The country was also in panic, which is not generally good for public health.

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Top Ten Quotes from the NYT Fauci Interview

Jeffrey A. Tucker April 26, 2023 History, Public Health 8 minute read

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The New York Times published a very long piece that contains some rather startling admissions, claims, and defenses from Anthony Fauci, the face of lockdowns and shot mandates.

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Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything

Jeffrey A. Tucker April 23, 2023 Philosophy, Policy, Psychology 15 minute read

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The clean vs. dirty distinction was once an indicator of class, perhaps a desiderata of germaphobic pathology, even a harmless eccentricity. But in 2020, the obsession became extreme, an aesthetic priority that overrode all morality and truth. It then became a fundamental threat to liberty, self-government, and human rights.Today this demarcation has invaded the whole of our lives, and it threatens to create a horrifying caste system consisting of those who enjoy rights and privileges vs those who do not and serve (at a distance) the elites.

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