In This Red Dawn, Who Invaded Whom?
By Jeffrey A. Tucker The gigantic mess of 2020 called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn, based on the old movie about…
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In a War on Restaurants, Media Tout the Lockdown Narrative
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Just when the fear starts to subside, and growing public skepticism seems to push governors into opening, something predictable happens. The…
Authoritarianism in Auckland
By Jeffrey A. Tucker For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt with the coronavirus! They did the tightest lockdown in…
Madness in Melbourne
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel days of my…
“Full Measure” Reports On Federally Mandated Products That Don’t Work Right
By B.N. Frank There have been plenty of complaints that have led to investigations and reports about federally mandated products that don’t work right in…
Why this Draconian Response to COVID-19?
Op-Ed by Jeffrey A. Tucker Imagine if you are the organizer of a major arts and tech event that attracts a quarter-million attendees. One week…
Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
By Jeffrey A. Tucker There is not a living soul who is proud of what national politics has become. It’s depressing. Or maybe it shouldn’t…
The 3 Errors of Conspiracy Theory, Even True Ones
Op-Ed by Jeffrey A. Tucker Some years back, a friend came to me, a bit sheepishly, and suggested that he suspected the existence of a…
“Do Something” Is a Dangerous Demand to Make of Politicians
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Do Something, goes the suddenly popular chant. In response to the wave of mass killings this year, it’s being shouted at…
A Currency Upheaval Is Coming
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Sometimes forces line up in just the right way to mark the end of an era. That era is dollar supremacy….
This Agency Might Wreck Internet Economics
By Jeffrey A. Tucker The Department of Housing and Urban Development has filed civil charges against Facebook for allowing advertising to target some groups and…
The Socialists Always Come For the Kids, Eventually
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in her now-famous sweet potato video, makes a passing remark that suggests some anxiety about whether people ought to…
Imagine a Clock that Doesn’t Surveil You
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Warning: this article continues with my clock obsession. Our phones today are also clocks, plus dictionaries, health trackers, music devices, cameras,…
These Shutdowns Devastate the Credibility of Government
By Jeffrey A. Tucker I’m writing in the midst of a hiatus in the government shutdown — a three-week period, which, as Saturday Night Live…