John Tierney

Exposing the Recycling ‘Scam’

Brandon Morse writes for RedState.com about false narratives tied to recycling. John Stossel is back to ruin your preconceived notions of things with some very inconvenient truths. In this case,…

“The lockdowns must end”

That’s the subtitle of a recent Manhattan Institute peice by John Tierney. Here are the opening paragraphs: Lockdowns are typically portrayed as prudent precautions against Covid-19, but they are surely…

‘Crisis and Leviathan’ author reacts to COVID-19

John Tierney explains for City Journal why one longtime observer of government growth sees little that surprises him about the COVID-19 response. In the political response to the Covid-19 pandemic,…

Coronavirus highlights problem linked to ‘green’ shopping bags

John Tierney of City Journal writes about the negative impact of a popular “green” shopping technique. The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians…

Stossel interviews Tierney on who is really anti-science

Financing roads

The Trump administration has shared the outlines of its effort to reform and rebuild the nation’s transportation infrastructure. John Tierney, writing for City Journal, sums up the approach as “get…

Richard Thaler Has Won the Nobel Prize for Economics

And David Henderson has written a typically insightful peice about it in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the ending: In Mr. Thaler’s influential 2008 book “Nudge,” written with Harvard law…

“The Senator Charles Schumer Line”

In a recent City Journal article about the TSA, John Tierney offers the following proposal: At the entrance to the security checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport, let’s install a large bronze plaque…

Little room for doom and gloom

John Tierney offers Barron’s readers a cheery assessment of The End of Doom, a new book from Reason magazine science writer Ronald Bailey. Bailey has a well-earned reputation for putting…

Simon/Ehrlich Wager, Redux

Don Boudreaux has challenged UC-Berkeley professor Brad DeLong to a wager similar to the famous 1980 Julian Simon/Paul Ehrlich wager.? (See his letter below) Simon bet Ehrlich that the prices,…

So where’s the emergency?

You probably noticed the breathless recent news stories (like this one from the AP) about the Obama administration’s latest report on climate change and wondered what has changed, especially since,…

A sure thing — bad news about the weather

The weather itself may not be worse than usual. It might be better. No matter, the news people will get about it will be full of alarmist hand-wringing. That’s John…