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.
-
•
The Socialists Always Come For the Kids, Eventually
Beware, my friends. Socialists may start off believing that they are for the well being of all. But once they turn their attention to matters of control, they eventually discover that controlling demographics is essential to making all their dreams come true. That’s when they come after a fundamental human right.
-
•
The Strange Economics of Mechanical-Clock Repair
You are not in it for the money? That might be the source of the problem.
-
•
Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities
China no longer wants your leftover pizza box. Nor your empty 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew. They are being burned in the US instead.
-
•
How To Become Talented
By the time the talent reaches our eyes and ears, the hard work is done. We see only the finished product. In our attempt to discern the difference between their level of awesome and ourselves, we reach for the easiest answer: the person must have been born this way. It just comes naturally.
-
•
Don’t Blame Technology, Blame Yourself
Every new technology comes with an awkward stage of adoption, during which time people get manipulated and break every kind of rule of propriety until they figure out a better way.
-
•
Government Is the Main Problem, Say a Record Number of Americans
It’s a pretty strange time for conservatives suddenly to decide they like government, and the worst imaginable time for the Left to celebrate the state as never before. Based on the attitudes of the public alone, we ought to be seeing the opposite from both sides.
-
•
Where Did AOC Get Her Sweet Potatoes?
It drives me crazy to see people so fully enjoying the benefits from private property, trade, technology, and capitalistic endeavor even as they blithely propose to truncate dramatically the very rights that bring them such material joy, without a thought as to how their ideology might dramatically affect the future of mass availability of wealth that…
-
•
The Veneer of Civilization Slipped Away
Every idealist hopes that humankind can learn from history. There is plenty of evidence that we do not.
-
•
What It’s Like to Intern at AIER
AIER offers a unique opportunity to gain professional work experience and produce tangible outcomes in line with your strengths and interests. Furthermore, you join a community of friendly, motivated and inspiring staff, who are more than happy to take time to offer guidance and support.
-
•
The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
-
•
The Socialists Always Come For the Kids, Eventually
Beware, my friends. Socialists may start off believing that they are for the well being of all. But once they turn their attention to matters of control, they eventually discover that controlling demographics is essential to making all their dreams come true. That’s when they come after a fundamental human right.
-
•
The Strange Economics of Mechanical-Clock Repair
You are not in it for the money? That might be the source of the problem.
-
•
Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities
China no longer wants your leftover pizza box. Nor your empty 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew. They are being burned in the US instead.
-
•
How To Become Talented
By the time the talent reaches our eyes and ears, the hard work is done. We see only the finished product. In our attempt to discern the difference between their level of awesome and ourselves, we reach for the easiest answer: the person must have been born this way. It just comes naturally.
-
•
Don’t Blame Technology, Blame Yourself
Every new technology comes with an awkward stage of adoption, during which time people get manipulated and break every kind of rule of propriety until they figure out a better way.
-
•
Government Is the Main Problem, Say a Record Number of Americans
It’s a pretty strange time for conservatives suddenly to decide they like government, and the worst imaginable time for the Left to celebrate the state as never before. Based on the attitudes of the public alone, we ought to be seeing the opposite from both sides.
-
•
Where Did AOC Get Her Sweet Potatoes?
It drives me crazy to see people so fully enjoying the benefits from private property, trade, technology, and capitalistic endeavor even as they blithely propose to truncate dramatically the very rights that bring them such material joy, without a thought as to how their ideology might dramatically affect the future of mass availability of wealth that…
-
•
The Veneer of Civilization Slipped Away
Every idealist hopes that humankind can learn from history. There is plenty of evidence that we do not.
-
•
What It’s Like to Intern at AIER
AIER offers a unique opportunity to gain professional work experience and produce tangible outcomes in line with your strengths and interests. Furthermore, you join a community of friendly, motivated and inspiring staff, who are more than happy to take time to offer guidance and support.
-
•
The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.