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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, including Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. Follow him at @jeffreyatucker
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The “Joy” of Rationing and Price Controls: Kamala Harris vs. The Price Gougers
There is a lack of public comment and debate about Kamala Harris’s call for price controls on groceries and rents, the most stunning and frightening policy proposal made in my lifetime.
What Is Going on in America’s Federal Bureaucracy?
With an ideal president and legislature, we would pursue something like what is going on in Argentina today. Whole agencies need to be deleted entirely from the federal budget.
The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary Revisited
Typhoid was ultimately conquered not by jails but by sanitation, hygiene, and antibiotics.
How Elon Musk’s X Drove The Mainstream Media Narrative After the Trump Assasination Attempt
What stood out above all else was the way free speech on X worked to ferret out the real story, while actually driving forward the mainstream press to correct its errors and get the story right.
You Keep Using the Term ‘Authoritarian’
There is nothing in the Constitution about a vast army of bureaucrats who rule behind the scenes that is in no way reachable or manageable by elected representatives.
What Really Happened: Lockdown until Vaccination
The goal of all of it was to keep natural immunity from ruining the chance for the mRNA shots to save the day.
Censorship and Surveillance: A Declaration on the Future of the Internet
Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?
Why The Department of Justice Wants to Take Down Apple
Is there muscle behind the growing push for censorship? Certainly there is. This reality is underscored by the Justice Department’s antitrust actions against Apple.
How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom
The push to force everyone into higher education has proven to be a massive diversion of financial and human energy, and, just like Schumpeter predicted, it did the cause of freedom no favors.
Why Health Insurance in America Lacks Rationality and How To Fix It
How the government drove out the science of risk from the entire business of consumer pricing of health care insurance.
Covid-19 Lockdowns: Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.
Free Speech on Trial: Can the Government Force Private Companies to Censor Users?
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Murthy v. Missouri concerning whether the government can force or nudge private companies to censor users on behalf of regime priorities.
Contagion of Cowardice
Going against the grain and daring to stand up for truth in a time of totalitarianism is exceedingly dangerous.
Missouri v. Biden: Free Speech in the Crossfire
The case against the government here is that it cannot do through third parties such as social media platforms what it is forbidden from doing directly by virtue of the First Amendment. The case in question is popularly known as Missouri v. Biden, and there is much at stake with its results.
The Multifront Attack on Business Hero Elon Musk
The attacks on Elon Musk seem like something straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. The successful and innovative entrepreneur is attacked on all sides by institutions and people who live off the system rather than innovate around and beyond it.
This Silence on The Fascist Response To Covid-19 Is Not Golden
The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who.
A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism
The denialists are those who actively promoted and enforced lockdowns, and now implausibly deny that anything happened at all.
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
The pandemic response enabled new government powers of surveillance, enforcement, and hegemony, resulting in the ultimate and global experiment in social management under the guise of science.
The Great Cloud of Disrepute
The top players who made the pandemic response happen are gradually being taken out of power and being replaced by people who believe the exact same things as their predecessors. And they have every stated intention of doing it all again, under whatever pretext. The great calamity is now the template for the future.
A Brief History of “Corporatism”
Corporatism abolishes the competitive dynamic of competitive capitalism and replaces it with cartels run by oligarchs.
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