Articles by Jeffrey Tucker

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What Your Credit Rating Says About You

Jeff Tucker on a great free-market tool.

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10/28/2011

Barefoot-Shoe Heaven

Jeff Tucker on the sole of a runner.

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9/6/2011

We’re Just Apes to the State

Jeff Tucker on Planet of the Tax Slaves.

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8/19/2011

Does the US Have a Volunteer Army?

Of course not.

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8/5/2011

The Blessings of Capitalism

Jeff Tucker on the miracles of the market.

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7/27/2011

The Government Hates Your Private Automobile

Jeff Tucker on the eternal enemy of human progress.

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7/4/2011

All Hail McDonald’s

Jeff Tucker on the paradigm of capitalist progress.

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6/28/2011

Disgusting Protectionism

Denying us the best and cheapest catfish in the world, and US victims a chance to earn a living.

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6/7/2011

Do You Hate the State?

And do you love commerce? Jeff Tucker on the two marks of a real libertarian.

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6/3/2011

Will You Choose Peace or Violence?

Jeff Tucker on anti-capitalist Catholics.

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5/21/2011

Finally, an Algorean Utopia

Haiti.

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5/12/2011

The Government Is Dirty

And it makes us dirty too, says Jeff Tucker. Literally.

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5/6/2011

3 More Attacks on Civilization

Jeff Tucker on prohibition of phosphate detergent, incandescent light bulbs, and lye drain-cleaners.

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4/20/2011

A Libertarian Allegory

Jeff Tucker on Rebecca Black’s "Friday."

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4/8/2011

No One Can Make Homemade Ice Cream

We need the division of labor.

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4/4/2011

Libertarian Utopia

Jeff Tucker on the Jetsons.

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3/29/2011

Bless the State for Self-Defrosting Fridges

Or so claims the commander-in-cheek.

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2/11/2011

Ripping the Disguise Off Government

Tom Woods does it in Rollback, says Jeff Tucker.

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2/3/2011

Why American Kids Do So Poorly

Jeff Tucker on Tiger Moms vs. the central planning of public schools.

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1/28/2011

Capitalism and Charity

Jeff Tucker on the web's new culture of giving.

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12/31/2010

So Long, Starbucks

Individualism comes to coffee making.

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12/6/2010

Imagine: a Pro-Capitalist Movie From Hollywood

Jeff Tucker on the amazing Social Network.

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10/28/2010

Criminal Injustice

Jeff Tucker on the government criminal justice system.

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10/13/2010

Bedbugs of the State

Jeff Tucker on the decivilizing effects of government.

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9/24/2010

Catholics Don’t Get Economics

Yet the founders of the science were priests and even saints. Wha' happened?

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8/26/2010

Our Miracle of Pentecost

Jeff Tucker on falling language barriers, thanks to the internet.

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7/16/2010

Repeal the Drinking Age

Jeff Tucker on the evil of any sort of prohibitionism.

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7/8/2010

Want a Successful Life?

Work for free, says Jeff Tucker.

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7/2/2010

Work for Free

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7/2/2010

Hooray for Falling Real Estate Prices

Jeff Tucker on Pittsburgh and our economic future.

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7/1/2010

Bother the Ghost of FDR

Cook with lard, says Jeff Tucker. It's far better than "shortening."

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5/20/2010

The Dirty Litter of Politics

Jeff Tucker on what democracy inflicts on his neighborhood.

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5/7/2010

My $4,000 Sneeze

Jeff Tucker becomes part of the health-care crisis.

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2/6/2010

Literary Libertarian

Jeff Tucker on Mark Twain.

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2/1/2010

Your Government Toilet

Jeff Tucker on the green-state ceramic disaster.

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1/6/2010

The Open Source University

That is the future of learning, not dusty lecture halls and grasping academics.

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11/18/2009

The Microcredit Scam

Did the boomsters really believe that debt was the road to prosperity for the poor, and give bankster Mohammed Yunus the Nobel "Peace" Prize?

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10/14/2009

Free the Sudafed 25!

Jeff Tucker on the latest crimes of the drug war.

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10/9/2009

I Wake Up Screaming

Jeff Tucker on what to watch during the crisis.

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9/23/2009

Socialist Garbage

Jeff Tucker on municipal trash collection.

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9/15/2009

The Music of Tech Support

Jeff Tucker on how to tell what's right.

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8/10/2009

Thrill, Risk, Struggle

Jeff Tucker on that classic capitalist flick, Wall Street.

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7/21/2009

The Stop Sign vs. Freedom

Jeff Tucker on the real nature of government.

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7/15/2009

Should the Church Wave the Flag?

No, and there shouldn't be one on a pole either.

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7/4/2009

Free Bernie Madoff

And all other prisoners not guilty of violent crimes.

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7/3/2009

America’s Money Machine

Jeff Tucker on Elgin Groseclose's great anti-Fed work.

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6/10/2009

A Model of How To Proceed Against Tyranny

Jeff Tucker on Ludwig von Mises's Memoirs.

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6/8/2009

Want To See the State as It Does Not Want To Be Seen?

Jeff Tucker on what to read first.

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5/27/2009

If a Total Stranger Calls You Out of the Blue

Should you give away your intellectual property? Of course, says Jeff Tucker.

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5/22/2009

A New Libertarian Classic

And it's by our own Butler Shaffer.

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5/21/2009