The word capitalism has no stable definition and should probably be permanently retired. That won’t happen, however, because too many people are invested in its use and abuse. I’m long over trying to push my definition over someone else’s understanding, generally...
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Vaccine Mandates 3 Years Ago This Week
Three years ago on Sept. 9, 2021, the Biden administration released an executive order on “Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees.” It pertained to all federal employees including the military and contractors too. It was just the...
The Global Attack on Small Business
There was a highly conventional travel piece in the New York Times of the sort that such venues have been running for many years now, even decades. It’s about a small resort town in Italy, namely Bologna, that is being wrecked by tourism and corporations moving in to...
The Erosion of Trust
Several new polls have appeared that confirm what you suspected. Trust in medical authority and pharmaceutical giants, along with their core product, have hit new lows. The first comes from Gallup. “Fewer Americans today consider childhood vaccines important, with 40...
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
First Dogs, Then Humans
Quietly and without press attention, in the past 10 years most governments of the world have started requiring that dogs be microchipped. The chip contains information on vaccine records and health generally, along with owner information including phone number....
How Did a Small Group Do This?
A very interesting study appeared last week by two researchers looking into the pandemic policy response around the world. They are Drs. Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel of Stanford and Harvard, respectively. Their ambition was straightforward. They wanted to examine...
The Foundations of Internet Freedom
Twelve years ago, I wrote a book called “A Beautiful Anarchy,” which was a celebration of how the internet had evolved until that point in time. It largely operated in a decentralized manner, with businesses thriving within a spontaneous order. The web browser was...
What If Six Feet Was the Science?
The rule of six feet of distance between people came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March 2020. Anthony Fauci has again admitted that there really was no science to back it up. And that strikes many people as outrageous. Why should this matter?...
It Leaked From a US-Backed Lab
For The New York Times, which started this whole fiasco dating from Feb. 27, 2020, with a podcast designed to drum up disease panic, it’s been a drip, drip, drip of truthiness ever since. A fortnight ago, the paper finally decided to report on vaccine injury from...
They Are Closing Up the Internet
Such confusing times, so much in dispute, so much to discover and know. Billions of people are right now lifting their phones to their faces and searching for answers. The results they see are dramatically different from what they were just a few years ago. You have...
The 3 Layers of the Technocratic State
There are three layers to the U.S. state that lord it over the American people and the world: deep, middle, and shallow. It’s a typology of how technocracy works in practice. Let’s talk about how it works and how the layers interact. Former President Donald Trump...
What Really Happened: Lockdown Until Vaccination
Four years later, many people are investigating how our lives were completely upended by a pandemic response. Over my time on the case, I’ve heard countless theories. It was Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Finance, the Green New Deal, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),...
A Limited Hangout on Vaccine Harms
Well, it’s finally happened. The New York Times (NYT) has acknowledged COVID vaccine harms. In a major piece written by their top pandemic reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, the paper has written of “thousands” the world over who have experienced when it is more like...