John Tierney
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Past articles by John:
Greenpeace Admits It: Recycling Doesn’t Work
The environmental group finally concedes the obvious. → Read More
Will Policymakers Let the Covid Crisis End?
Reluctant to set the public free, policymakers and the public-health bureaucracy set unachievable and unnecessary goals. → Read More
The Panic Pandemic
Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus. → Read More
Facebook and Its Fact Checkers Spread Misinformation
The social media giant is using the “fight against misinformation” to spread their own version of it. → Read More
The Last Presidential Debate, Please
Let’s scrap the way we stage these meaningless contests. → Read More
A Failed Experiment
The lockdowns must end. → Read More
What Do We Clap For When We Clap for Government?
The desire for communion with our fellows is inborn—but substituting allegiance to government for that urge has its perils. → Read More
Stop the Virus Now, Save the Planet Later
In: plastic bags. Out: recycling. → Read More
Bureaucratic Strictures Hindering America's Fight Against Covid-19
Absurd bureaucratic strictures are hindering efforts to fight Covid-19. → Read More
Greening Our Way to Infection
The ban on single-use plastic grocery bags is unsanitary—and it comes at the worst imaginable time. → Read More
Plastic Bags Help the Environment
Banning them provides no benefit other than to let activists lord their preferences over others. Why do politicians want to take away our plastic bags and straws? This moral panic is intensifying even as evidence mounts that banning plastic is both a waste of money and harmful to the... → Read More
Journalism in the Age of Mutual Assured Cancellation
Journalists should reconsider their embrace of character assassination. → Read More
Pittsburgh's Transformation: From the Steel City to Central PA’s hub of “eds” and “meds.”
John Tierney joins City Journal assistant editor Charles McElwee to discuss Pittsburgh’s recent resurgence. → Read More
10 Blocks Podcast: Prescription Drugs and Price Controls
Audio Transcript Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. The cost of prescription drugs has become one of the hot political issues of our time. Progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have called for strict regulation of prescription drug prices, and as the midterm results indicate their ranks… → Read More
What the Prescription Drug Debate Gets Wrong|
Price controls on pharmaceuticals might save Americans money in the short term—but at the potential cost of millions of lives. → Read More
The First-Year Indoctrination
Audio Transcript Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks Podcast. This is your host Brian Anderson, editor of City Journal. Joining me on the show today is John Tierney. John is a contributing editor at City Journal, and a contributing science columnist at The New York Times, where he was a reporter for many years. You can also follow him on Twitter, @JohnTierneyNYC. John’s here to discuss… → Read More
Reeducation Campus
The First-Year Experience, a widely adopted college freshman program, indoctrinates students in radicalism, identity politics, and victimology. → Read More
Juul Madness
Vaping prohibitionists ignore the vast public-health benefits of the new technology. → Read More
Scott Pruitt, Warrior for Science
Democrats and liberal journalists attack the EPA head for insisting on transparency, shared research, and rigorous peer review. → Read More
Welcome to the Golden Age
Steven Pinker’s new book debunks pessimism from both sides of the political spectrum. → Read More