Jeffrey Tucker

For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and…

Oxford University Professor Sunetra Gupta has been an outspoken voice for calm, science, and rationality in dealing with this virus.…

It’s happened to quite a number of us. We write against the lockdowns for all the incredible economic, psychological, and…

A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could…

The lockdown upheaval has affected every aspect of life, including intellectual life. People we have never heard of have become…

What becomes of government credibility in the post-lockdown period? There are thousands of politicians in this country for whom this…

Nine-hundred years ago, the English historian Henry of Huntingdon wrote down an older Anglo-Saxon story/myth of King Canute who claimed…

For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand dealt with the Coronavirus! They did the tightest lockdown…

Shell-shocked is a good way to describe the mood in the U.S. for a good part of the Spring of…

Melbourne, that glorious city in the state of Victoria in Australia, granted me some of the best travel days of…

Murray Rothbard’s wonderful History of Economic Thought opens with a blast against what he called the Whig theory of intellectual…

Based on the data, there seems to be no relationship between lockdowns and lives saved. That’s remarkable, given that we…

Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue…

From the beginning of this virus, political elites have used the language of war. The invisible enemy would be contained,…

After a months-long struggle to contain COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems confident that he has steered the state…

The U.S. is at a crossroads on the topic of policing. The usual binary has framed the debate: support the…

I’m an enthusiast for Trump’s attacks on bad showerheads and low-flow faucets and toilets. Six months ago, he was just…

Walter Duranty of the NYT, as featured in the 2019 film Mr. Jones The resignation letter from former New York…

What’s closed in the arts? Nearly everything. Unless you want to switch on your laptop. Otherwise forget it. Hardly anyone…

I was sitting in the green room in a Manhattan television studio on the day that the storm seemed to…

The Trump administration announced yesterday that it might follow India’s lead and ban TikTok for Americans. There is some sense…

For many people, it was their first experience in a full denial of freedom. Locked in their homes. Prevented from…

Many millions have spent the last four months in sadness and depression. It’s hard to watch the world shattered by…

One of the most marvelous books I’ve read this year is Donald Henderson’s personal story of the eradication of smallpox.…

Peter R. Quinones interviewed me on his podcast on the topic: the origin of the lockdown idea. This was the…

The betting markets judge Trump’s prospects for keeping the presidency with more negativity each day. As of this writing, there…

It was the 17th year for the Porcupine Freedom Festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, held at the Rogers Campground. It…

It’s some kind of intuition we have. We see a little convertible with the top down, buzzing here and there.…

We’ve lived through the most bizarre experience of human folly in my lifetime, and perhaps in generations. Among the most…

We live in the age of pretend. Governments have behaved more regrettably, ignorantly, arbitrarily, and capriciously than in a generation…