Posts byJeffrey Tucker

Why do we let the police power of the state take over and inevitably wreck so many aspects of our life? Why do we …

We can learn from Facebook and all other social networks that the Internet has brought us. These are more than websites; they are models of social organization that transcend old forms. Make the rest of life more like a social network and we will begin to see real progress in the course of civilization. Persist in the old model of forced democratic community and we will continue to see decline.

When National Public Radio airs a segment on the gold standard, you know that the debate over the quality of money has reached the …

My brother is teaching a semester in London, and he casually video Skyped me last week to show me around his apartment, which is …

January 3 of this year was the 99th anniversary of the signing of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. It enshrined into law an …

Reflecting on the sheer vastness of this sector of life, one realizes the fiction, for example, embodied in official government statistics that record only the on-the-books sector of economic life. These agencies are pumping out half-truths and whole myths every day. One further realizes the immense damage that would be done to humanity in general should there come a time when government actually managed to enforce all its edicts. It would be catastrophic. We owe much of our prosperity to people’s willingness to enter the rebel class.

There is a scene in the Parable of the Talents in which the returned master berates the shabbiest of his three servants. Discovering that …

Last week’s violent government attack on the hugely popular site Megaupload — the U.S. government arresting Belgian citizens in New Zealand, of all places, …

We are getting a sense of what life is like with the new Fed policy of openness. It means that the chairman tries to …

When you eat Oreo cookies, if you do eat Oreo cookies, how many do you eat? Three sounds sort of reasonable to me. Surely, …