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Life Is Beta, an Experimental Leap into the Unknown
Lara-Murphy Report Interview With Jeffrey Tucker June 2012 Jeffrey Tucker is the executive editor of Spy Briefing Books and the founder of the Spy …
Take Your Bureaucratic Hands Off My Microwave
The Department of Energy, which is the Supreme Court of your home appliances, thinks you might be wasting precious energy. And the bureaucrats have …
Finally, the Truth about Health Care
Nothing starts a fistfight like the health-care debate. The market for what is just a basic service has been contorted and mangled by government …
A Sacred Right
The Supreme Court will soon issue its decision in response to Obamacare litigation. It’s anyone’s guess how this will turn out, and that’s a …
How to Think Like a State
Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. There is a certain …
Finally, a Film for 50 Somethings
Those of us in our 50s grew up going to the movies. But only occasionally does Hollywood take its eye off the 2 to …
Scholarship that Changes Everything
Some writings have turned the world upside down. They toppled tyrannies. They sparked revolutions and ennobled humanity. The Magna Carta. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” …
The Silent Killer
I was just reading about how the median wage is lower today than it was a decade ago. Ouch. The cause, says this article, …
Capitalists Who Fear Change
Digital technology is reinventing our whole world, in service of you and me. It’s free enterprise on steroids. It’s bypassing the gatekeepers and empowering …
The Wonderful World of Commerce
It’s fashionable to put down commercial culture, but, when you think about it, this makes no sense. Commerce is the driving force of human …
Professor Bernanke’s Plan for Your Life
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke continues to stand on a stack of Lord Keynes’ General Theory and proclaim that the world needs low interest rates …
The Political Theater of President Ford
Sorry, but I dreaded my visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. It had to be done, …
Government-Caused Impoverishment: Why Do We Stand for It?
Growing up in the Cold War, we tended to look at Russia as a nightmare slave society that was utterly and completely foreign to …
The So-Called Private Economy
“The private economy is doing fine.” Those were the words of President Obama that unleashed a torrent of political hysteria. The Romney campaign immediately …
Cryptography for the Rest of Us
Shanghai’s leading code slinger, David Veksler, who is also a good friend and long-time collaborator on all things digital, has come up with something …
Governments and Computers: Dangerous Mix
Many people these days openly express regret about the digital age. I find their complaints vacuous: They say we are losing the art of …
Photography and Its Epic Significance
My link to my family past is a photograph taken in dusty, desolate West Texas, the one in which my grandmother on my father’s …
The Zombie Apocalypse: Economic Implications
The financial pages and popular culture are often strangely aligned. For example, many young people today are consumed with the seeming emergence of a …
Hayekian Moments in Life
I never tire of looking out the windows of airplanes. For all of human history until just about the day before yesterday, no living …
Small Package, Tons of Truth
Economic trends today are a litany of awful: high personal debt, stratospheric government debt, persistent trade deficits, declining living standards, government out of control, …
A Case for Danger
There’s a national park close to my house that has a large lake and all the swimming accoutrements left over from the 1970s. It’s …
How to Think: Lunchtime Lessons
“I just joined the Club!” That’s the whole content of an email I received from a very old friend who is very special to …
Conspiracies and How to Defeat Them
Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here’s one. It is called the political system. It is nothing …
The Juice that Defied an Empire
What’s great about POM Wonderful? Sure, this pomegranate juice tastes great. POM is one of the few drinks that seems to have the same …