Tucker Carlson’s Dark Turn

Since his firing from Fox News in 2023, Tucker Carlson has been descending deeper and deeper into the fever swamp of conspiracy theories. Guests on the enormously popular, self-produced Tucker Carlson Show have included author Naomi Wolf, who claims that certain clouds are in fact “geoengineered skies,” and Alex Jones, the vaudevillian mountebank whose most monstrous lie — that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a “false flag” operation perpetrated by the government to confiscate guns — cost him $1 billion in civil damages. At a live taping of the show last September, during which Jones asserted that “the globalists are making aliens by mixing humans and other animals and insects and plants. . . . They gestate them and use cow uteruses to grow them,” Carlson lauded Jones for being “vindicated on everything.”