In January a very old man came to the White House mumbling “moderation, moderation” or something like that with his eyes rolled back, saying he had won the elections but nobody believed him. Anyway, whatever, half an hour later he…
What can you say about a country that trashed the planet Earth with a deadly virus? That it knew what it was doing? China has gotten away with it: businesses and industries destroyed or damaged; massive recession and unemployment; medical systems…
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, unclear and misreported stories about where the virus came from have proliferated. Did it come from the wet market in Wuhan? From the Wuhan Lab? Was it a bio attack? Early last…
Following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, Wendell Berry penned an essay which examined how the integrity of language mirrors the integrity of the person who uses it. Berry criticized the officials who were trying to clarify the…
Did Dr. Fauci play Dr. Frankenstein? The researchers that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) bankrolled admitted in Nature Medicine that “to examine the emergence potential (that is, the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a…
It’s by now the conventional wisdom that the Chinese government is covering up — and has consistently covered up — the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan. But the always indomitable K.T. McFarland, President Trump’s first deputy national security adviser, has…
Back on March 30, I posted a column here at The American Spectator noting that when President Trump blew his top over the self-aggrandizing comments of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, it was a case of too-little, too-late: But…
As we await a pending World Health Organization (WHO) report into the origins of COVID-19, former Trump administration Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger said on Sunday that he believes “circumstantial evidence” points to the origins of COVID-19 being “human…
On March 12 of this year, I wrote for these pages a piece entitled “China and the Coronavirus — A Reckoning.” While the origins of COVID-19 were at that time murky (and remain so), what has become increasingly clear is…