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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Why Your White Clothing Is No Longer White
All the essential tools for making clothing super white have been deprecated, mostly by government regulations.
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Bohemian Rhapsody Shows That Artists Should Care About Audiences
The wonderful movie based on the life of Freddie Mercury and his band makes a great case that commerce can be and is the friend to art. It has always been so, but we are only now fully coming to terms with what this implies for the artistic endeavor generally.
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The Charming Luxury of Train Travel
The Hudson train station is especially charming. Indoors features lots of woodwork with a ticket window with iron bars and an old sign above it that says: TICKETS. There are benches around the periphery. You expect to meet an old guy there who is complaining about the policies of President Harding.
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What the Word Liberalism Means, If Anything
American politics today seems ever more a contest between two forms of state control – progressive/socialist and nationalist/fascist – with both sides deploying populist states of mass agitation with the hope of deploying power to achieve their ends. Where are the liberals? Not many even claim the label.
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Incredibles 2 and the Power of Envy
The Incredibles must discover the fortitude to push through and say no to those who want to bury talent in a thicket of mediocracy.
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There Might Be a Case for Financial Intermediation
We are probably being overly confident in claiming that the great merit of crypto is disintermediation of all things. That probably won’t happen.
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Let’s Not Know Satoshi’s Identity
One of the beautiful aspects of Bitcoin is that the creator is still unknown.
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No, Society Does Not Need Unity
To understand the awesome power of heterogeneity is to adopt a different outlook on society itself. It is to embrace the core liberal claim: society doesn’t need top-down management, because it contains within itself the capacity for its own management.
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What Our Frankensteins Have Wrought
Two hundred years later, Mary Shelley’s horrifying tale of the unconstrained vision continues to speak to us. It should also serve as a permanent warning.
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The Epic Battle to Control Your Thoughts
No authority can substitute for the activity, creativity, and adaptability of the human mind.
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Why Your White Clothing Is No Longer White
All the essential tools for making clothing super white have been deprecated, mostly by government regulations.
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Bohemian Rhapsody Shows That Artists Should Care About Audiences
The wonderful movie based on the life of Freddie Mercury and his band makes a great case that commerce can be and is the friend to art. It has always been so, but we are only now fully coming to terms with what this implies for the artistic endeavor generally.
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The Charming Luxury of Train Travel
The Hudson train station is especially charming. Indoors features lots of woodwork with a ticket window with iron bars and an old sign above it that says: TICKETS. There are benches around the periphery. You expect to meet an old guy there who is complaining about the policies of President Harding.
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What the Word Liberalism Means, If Anything
American politics today seems ever more a contest between two forms of state control – progressive/socialist and nationalist/fascist – with both sides deploying populist states of mass agitation with the hope of deploying power to achieve their ends. Where are the liberals? Not many even claim the label.
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Incredibles 2 and the Power of Envy
The Incredibles must discover the fortitude to push through and say no to those who want to bury talent in a thicket of mediocracy.
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•
There Might Be a Case for Financial Intermediation
We are probably being overly confident in claiming that the great merit of crypto is disintermediation of all things. That probably won’t happen.
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•
Let’s Not Know Satoshi’s Identity
One of the beautiful aspects of Bitcoin is that the creator is still unknown.
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•
No, Society Does Not Need Unity
To understand the awesome power of heterogeneity is to adopt a different outlook on society itself. It is to embrace the core liberal claim: society doesn’t need top-down management, because it contains within itself the capacity for its own management.
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•
What Our Frankensteins Have Wrought
Two hundred years later, Mary Shelley’s horrifying tale of the unconstrained vision continues to speak to us. It should also serve as a permanent warning.
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•
The Epic Battle to Control Your Thoughts
No authority can substitute for the activity, creativity, and adaptability of the human mind.