Jeffrey Tucker
AIER Editorial Director – 2017-2021
Jeffrey A. Tucker served as Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research from 2017 to 2021.
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A Cautious Retrospective on Bitcoin
Bitcoin could still go to the moon. But there are plenty of reasons to believe the opposite too. The most likely immediate future is that Bitcoin will continue brilliantly to service a special type of need.
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Mary, Joseph, and the Real ID
Think about this story as you contemplate the surveillance, the identity politics, the impending internal passports, and the demographic controls of modern statism. These are tools of oppression.
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History Was Supposed to End. What Happened?
Anyone paying close attention at the turn of the 21st century could foresee the impending failure of the social-democratic consensus throughout the developed world. The exalted experts who rose to power in the postwar period built gigantic state-based systems of social management and control and took over vast swaths of private society, imposing planning schemes…
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See Ford v Ferrari to Restore Your Faith in Movies
Just when you think politics is ruining everything in American life, at the very moment when we’ve all just come to assume that every movie out there will have a manipulative message designed to beat back our bourgeois sensibilities and turn them into some uplifted stage of wokeness, a movie like Ford v Ferrari comes…
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What If You Tell the Bartender About Crypto and He Doesn’t Say a Word Back to You?
At the BrainBar festival in Budapest, Hungary, this year, it was my pleasure to stay around an extra day for the filming of a video series on crypto. Basically, they just let me talk and talk to this bartender who never said a word back to me! As a result, I kept trying to engage…
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The Politicization of Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s case isn’t about the power of private equity or the perfect workings of market capitalism. It doesn’t fit into any existing political paradigm. It is a dispute over enforced ownership rights that have been granted to the unownable.
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One Hundred Exhortations: Why We Hate Airports
At some point, human beings feel a sense of demoralization when they are treated like cattle. That is precisely the feeling one gets at airports today.
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Bourbon for Breakfast After 10 Years
It was last year when I was invited to address a dinner party. I arrived to find a copy of this book at every place setting. I was momentarily mortified: this is surely not my best material. What even is in this book? This attitude does reflect my outlook: I tend not to like anything…
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The State Is Not Your Proxy
Leave aside every other problem of socialism (such as how it can rationally manage an economic process or achieve perfect material equality), and you are still left with the massive problem of power.
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It’s a Disservice to Urge Young People To Become Entrepreneurs
The legend of the twenty-something business wunderkind is everywhere in pop culture. Here’s the problem. The data are in. It turns out that the whole thing is a gigantic myth.
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A Cautious Retrospective on Bitcoin
Bitcoin could still go to the moon. But there are plenty of reasons to believe the opposite too. The most likely immediate future is that Bitcoin will continue brilliantly to service a special type of need.
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•
Mary, Joseph, and the Real ID
Think about this story as you contemplate the surveillance, the identity politics, the impending internal passports, and the demographic controls of modern statism. These are tools of oppression.
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•
History Was Supposed to End. What Happened?
Anyone paying close attention at the turn of the 21st century could foresee the impending failure of the social-democratic consensus throughout the developed world. The exalted experts who rose to power in the postwar period built gigantic state-based systems of social management and control and took over vast swaths of private society, imposing planning schemes…
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See Ford v Ferrari to Restore Your Faith in Movies
Just when you think politics is ruining everything in American life, at the very moment when we’ve all just come to assume that every movie out there will have a manipulative message designed to beat back our bourgeois sensibilities and turn them into some uplifted stage of wokeness, a movie like Ford v Ferrari comes…
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What If You Tell the Bartender About Crypto and He Doesn’t Say a Word Back to You?
At the BrainBar festival in Budapest, Hungary, this year, it was my pleasure to stay around an extra day for the filming of a video series on crypto. Basically, they just let me talk and talk to this bartender who never said a word back to me! As a result, I kept trying to engage…
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The Politicization of Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s case isn’t about the power of private equity or the perfect workings of market capitalism. It doesn’t fit into any existing political paradigm. It is a dispute over enforced ownership rights that have been granted to the unownable.
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•
One Hundred Exhortations: Why We Hate Airports
At some point, human beings feel a sense of demoralization when they are treated like cattle. That is precisely the feeling one gets at airports today.
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•
Bourbon for Breakfast After 10 Years
It was last year when I was invited to address a dinner party. I arrived to find a copy of this book at every place setting. I was momentarily mortified: this is surely not my best material. What even is in this book? This attitude does reflect my outlook: I tend not to like anything…
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•
The State Is Not Your Proxy
Leave aside every other problem of socialism (such as how it can rationally manage an economic process or achieve perfect material equality), and you are still left with the massive problem of power.
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•
It’s a Disservice to Urge Young People To Become Entrepreneurs
The legend of the twenty-something business wunderkind is everywhere in pop culture. Here’s the problem. The data are in. It turns out that the whole thing is a gigantic myth.