Last week I wrote an article that, I’m pretty sure, received the highest circulation I’ve ever had on a single piece of writing. It was an an interesting experience. The first version appeared on Liberty.me. Probably four days later, I revised it, re-stylized it, and it appeared on FEE...
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.
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One of the strangest videos I’ve seen in years consists of Barack Obama (yes, that guy) interviewing David Simon, the creator of the epic television series The Wire. The Wire, which aspires to a realistic presentation of Baltimore street life, is a devastating expose of the failure of the...
Who knew that the market for blenders is so complicated? I feel like I just waded into an incredible thicket of expertise, vociferous opinion, infinite choice, and high-fashion kitchen confusion. It began inauspiciously enough. I needed a blender because everyone seems to be making...
The Clinton campaign for president is going to shake out the same way that the Obama candidacy did. In the end, its primary appeal will be to identity politics. Voters will be asked to make possible a historic advance for women. Only this way, we will be told, can we as a nation (people...
What is the difference between murder and normal police work? Many people who have seen the video from North Charleston, South Carolina, are just sure it constitutes murder. In a moral sense, and this is probably the sense we should draw upon, it does seem like outright murder. One man in...
The year was 1975, and times were seriously changing. The protests against the Vietnam War ended an egregious slaughter. A president resigned to avoid impeachment. The postwar economic policies of the ruling class had proven unworkable. The illusion that the state could plan and save the...
“Bunch of do gooders shutting down the last chance these people had.” This sentence is a rare moment of truth concerning the coming regulation (or shutdown) or the payday loan industry. It appeared in the comment box on the New York Times story. Otherwise, most comments were out for blood...
Vancouver, Canada, which is the perfection of the best city you have ever been in, has at least one big problem besides its high taxes: its regulations on hamburgers. Actually it all traces to a larger regulation in British Columbia generally. I’ve never visited when this regulation did...
Without much fanfare, this month Microsoft announced that it is phasing out its notorious Internet browser called Internet Explorer. In all the news stories about this, the main focus has been on how it has been outcompeted by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, among many other browsers on the...
How incredibly silly can government be? Think of this. Oil prices have fallen 55% in the last year. The trend defied every expectation and it’s been wonderful. It’s an impressive illustration of how prices work to reveal underlying resource realities. Technology has blasted away the last...