Jeffrey Tucker

A few days ago, it was my pleasure to spend two hours listening to the ideas and concerns of a well-educated and politically informed – dare I say socially privileged – self-described socialist.

There is a sense these days, whether in politics or academia, that people should shape their own realities and each result is as valid or real as any other.

Here’s the word of the day: viscoelastic. It is a substance that seems solid but slowly drips into a puddle over time. The same substance if pulled quickly snaps and breaks. 

There is not a living soul who is proud of what national politics has become. 

If you subscribe to Netflix and care about the future of human liberty, I urge you right now to search and find the documentary called The Pursuit, newly on the lineup of this subscription service.

Two nutritionists (Dariush Mozaffarian and Dan Glickman) have sounded the alarm about the American diet, saying bluntly what most of us know intuitively to be true.

Generations of Americans have taken the ideal of free trade for granted – until the Trump administration, led by the self-described “tariff man,” turned on it and replaced it with a mercantilist strategy.

Ever since I read Stephen Davies’s provocative article, I’ve been thinking about his main proposal. He suggests that the term individualist should be revived.

That socialism as an idea could survive hundreds of years — even back to the ancient world — is a tribute to the capacity of the human mind to imagine it can create that which reality will forever decline to make possible.

The prospect that the US president would conclude that tariffs cause growth has always been the downside of good economic numbers.

That copyright today favors publishers and not authors is not inconsistent with its long history.

It’s just the beginning of the disaster.

There is a growing legislative movement – yes, elected politicians are always looking for something to do – to create and enforce a “right to repair” your stuff.