The pandemic has triggered an explosion of “temporary” government programs. The economist Robert Higgs sees little evidence that governments ever relinquish such newly added scale and power. Writing in City Journal, Robert Tierney argues that politicians and hysterical media have created a “crisis of crises.” We need to be wary, he warns, of political leaders who exploit our fears.
A Man Who’d Do Anything to Evade the Truth
Spiked’s Matt Ridley details Anthony Fauci’s “public-sector version of insider trading.” Subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate to “discuss” the origin of Covid-19, the longest-serving and highest-paid U.S. bureaucrat instead invoked the Fifth Amendment (protecting against self-incrimination) some 111 times. Strange; he’d been pardoned by President Joe Biden. Nevertheless, it’s clear Fauci lied to the American people about nearly everything – starting with Covid’s true origins in the Wuhan lab. Further, his bizarre diary (saved to a government computer) details his “nauseating narcissism and gobsmacking greed,” says Ridley, and shows he cared more about his own fame than about ailing Americans.
