Tag: Jeffrey Tucker

Jeffrey A. Tucker, Supreme Court Targets the Real Enemy

James Fetzerblog

By Jeffrey A. Tucker The flurry of rulings from the Supreme Court has everyone’s head spinning. The most significant among them, even if it doesn’t capture all the headlines, is West Virginia vs EPA. The majority opinion is impressive but the part I found truly wonderful is the concurring opinion by Neil Gorsuch. This is where we see things headed, toward a major and much-welcome curbing of the power of the administrative state. Just to review what this thing is, it is the unelected bureaucracy that rules the country without oversight from voters or legislatures. For well…

How COVID Lockdown Fanatics Took Over The World

James Fetzerblog

By Jeffrey Tucker Early in the pandemic, I had been furiously writing articles about lockdowns. My phone rang with a call from a man named Dr. Rajeev Venkayya. He is the head of a vaccine company but introduced himself as former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation. Now I was listening. I did not know it then, but I’ve since learned from Michael Lewis’s (mostly terrible) book The Premonition that Venkayya was, in fact, the founding father of lockdowns. While working for George W. Bush’s White House in 2005, he headed a bioterrorism…