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<title><![CDATA[John Tierney - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17673.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Tierney]]></description><category domain="17673">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How the Left Sustains Myths About Political Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/political-violence-right-left?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a leftist turns violent, Democratic politicians and their media allies offer a familiar response: yes, this is terrible, but right-wing violence is the greater threat. They have made that claim for decades, and it has always rested on a dubious premise.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Scrooges of 2025]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/charles-dickens-christmas-carol-scrooge-philanthropy?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike Dickens's famous miser, they've spent billions on philanthropy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but ignored the disastrous effects their efforts have had on poor and working-class people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Air-Traffic Control System: An International Disgrace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/reagan-national-airport-crash-faa-air-traffic-control?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the Reagan National Airport disaster, will we finally reform the FAA?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Major Victory for Science and Academic Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-taps-jay-bhattacharya-for-nih?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, Jay Bhattacharya was ostracized by his colleagues at Stanford and censored on social media platforms thanks to a campaign against him by the public-health establishment. The director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, sent an email to another NIH...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DEI v. Science]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/dei-v-science?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The preference for dogma over scientific inquiry on campuses has become increasingly prevalent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The March of Dimes Syndrome]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-march-of-dimes-syndrome</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Didn't Earn It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/didnt-earn-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more and more Americans, these words spell out the real meaning of DEI.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The WHO's Power Grab]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-whos-power-grab</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last thing we need: a new and unaccountable global pandemic czar]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Covid Lockdown Catastrophe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-covid-catastrophe</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new book calls elected leaders and public-health officials to account for their handling of the pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Covid Governors' Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-covid-governors-debate</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis present voters with two dramatically different models of leadership'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'especially when it comes to their handling of the pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard's Double Standard on Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-double-standard-on-free-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the university, you're free to excuse Hamas's atrocities, but don't dare say anything that offends leftists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Masks, Please, We're Rational]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/no-masks-please-were-rational</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maskaholics are incorrigible, but the rest of us should pay them no heed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lockdowns: The Self-Inflicted Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/lockdowns-the-self-inflicted-disaster</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Governments' use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Approximately Zero: The Value Provided by Wearing Masks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/new-cochrane-study-on-masks-and-covid</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Masks make no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, according to an extensive new review.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/greenpeace-admits-recycling-doesnt-work</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even Greenpeace has finally acknowledged the truth: recycling plastic makes no sense.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sen. Paul vs. Futile Covid Policies and Dubious Science]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/rand-pauls-lonely-battle</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Kentucky senator presses on with his fight against the federal government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Covid response.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-and-walensky-double-down-on-failure-covid-pandemic-evidence-data-lockdowns-mask-mandates-restrictions-public-health-experts-11660855180?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lockdowns were oppressive and deadly. But U.S. and WHO officials plan worse for the next pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Awarding the Covid Nobels (Not to You-Know-WHO)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-who-does-not-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The frontrunner for this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Nobel Peace Prize, according to the bets placed with British bookmakers, is the World Health Organization. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to imagine a worse choice. (Okay, Vladimir Putin.) The bettors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' theory is that the Nobel committee will honor the WHO for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[School Shootings Are Horrific - But Statistically Rare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/school-shootings-horrific-but-statistically-rare</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid heartbreaking events, we should resist the instinct to terrify ourselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Learning Hard Truths After 2 Years of Covid Deception]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/we-still-need-to-learn-the-right-lessons-from-americas-disastrous-covid-response/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than a century ago, Mark Twain identified two fundamental problems that would prove relevant to the COVID pandemic. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How easy it is to make people believe a lie,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he wrote, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'and how hard it is to undo that work again!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Failed Policy of Mask Mandates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-failed-covid-policy-of-mask-mandates</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wearing a mask may still give some people a sense of security, but they could breathe more easily if they'd face the facts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding the Covid Odds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/understanding-the-covid-odds?wallit_nosession=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you've been vaccinated and still feel mortally threatened by the virus, please read this.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid's Three Blind Mice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-a-plague-upon-our-house-by-scott-atlas</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new book reveals how the troika of Fauci, Birx, and Redfield hijacked America's pandemic response.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unwise Push to Give Kids the Covid Vaccine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-covid-childrens-crusade</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Against ethics and evidence, public officials push vaccine mandates for kids.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Covid Fearmongers Ever Let the Pandemic End?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/will-policymakers-let-the-covid-crisis-end</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reluctant to set the public free, policymakers and the public-health bureaucracy set unachievable and unnecessary goals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Panic Pandemic: Fearmongering Did More Harm Than Virus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/panic-pandemic</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Run-In With Facebook's Censors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/facebook-and-its-fact-checkers-spread-misinformation?wallit_nosession=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supposedly engaged in a struggle against misinformation, Facebook and its fact-checking partner spread their own.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Evidence That the Lockdowns Save Lives]]></title>
							<link>https://americanconsequences.com/death-and-lockdowns-john-tierney/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pandemic lockdowns seemed like a sound strategy, but the statistics show these measures may have cost more lives than they saved.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adults Have Failed Kids With Harmful Covid Restrictions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/masking-children-unnecessary-and-harmful</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adults have failed children in foisting unnecessary, harmful Covid-19 restrictions on them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Proof Lockdowns Save Lives, Lots of Proof They End Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/death-and-lockdowns</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Tierney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the 2020 figures have been properly tallied, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still no convincing evidence that strict lockdowns reduced the death toll from Covid-19. But one effect is clear: more deaths from other causes, especially among the young and middle-aged, minorities, and the less...]]></description>
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