Universal Basic Income: How Crazy of an Idea Is It Really?
AIER Staff . Aleksandra Przegalinska, Vice Rector at Kozminski University and AIER Research Fellow interviews Robert Wright on the meaning, intent and practicality of universal basic income as an economic policy and moral conundrum for free societies. AIER Staff Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest […]
The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing
Jeffrey A. Tucker . Feeling outgunned, outnumbered, overpowered, smothered, and censored? Many people who oppose Covid lockdowns and all their associated restrictions feel this way. It’s hard not to. You can hardly post on social media without triggering warnings, corrections, and sometimes outright blocks. Bans are part of the mix too, the complete deplatforming of […]
Consumers Who Want Privacy Are Finally Getting Their Way
Jeffrey A. Tucker . I just updated my iPhone with a new feature that is long overdue. I’m thrilled to say that anyone who has downloaded the update is now in a position to control what personal information is used and passed on by various applications on the smartphone. Apple has been generally better than […]
Government ‘Discrimination’ and the Age Profile of Covid-19 Fatalities
Donald J. Boudreaux The ongoing debate over Covid-19 policies spawns many surprises. Among those that cause me to scratch my head most thoroughly is the claim that, for policymaking purposes, the steep age profile of Covid-19 fatalities ought to be ignored. The age profile of these fatalities is indeed steep. According to the CDC, as […]
Make No Mistake: Programmable Digital Currencies Are Weaponizable Money
Peter C. Earle . Earlier this year, China began to roll out a project that had long been in the works––a digital version of its currency, the yuan, is now being used in four Chinese cities. The Chinese government sees two major potential benefits to the experiment: a tangible challenge to the U.S. dollar’s global ubiquity, and […]
Lockdowns and the Natural Order
Ethan Yang The year is 1535 and Saint Thomas More is on trial for high treason for refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of King Henry VIII in an ongoing feud with the Catholic Church. More posed a now-famous question to the jury that roughly goes as follows: “Some men say the earth is flat. Some men say the […]
Pathogens in One Lesson, Courtesy of Sunetra Gupta
Jeffrey A. Tucker . Early last year, it became obvious that knowledge about viruses and society – we need urgently to think differently about this subject! – would remain at a premium for a while. It would be difficult to write about terrible policies without some capacity for countering disease panic. This was because the […]
Vaccine Passports vs. Freedom Itself
Paul E. Alexander To reject the creeping totalitarianism and dictatorship is the lifeblood of all freedom-loving individuals across the world. Those under despotic control yearn for freedom. We need only to look at the failing state of Hong Kong, where once freedom reigned and commerce enjoyed an unprecedented expansion of wealth and enviable quality of […]
The Damage of Lockdowns to Young People
Ethan Yang In a previous article, I outlined the biological and cultural reasons why young people, mostly referring to those under the age of 30, are particularly vulnerable to the isolation as well as lifestyle disruptions brought about by lockdowns. This article will highlight some of the real damage that has been caused by such policies. […]
Another Covid Myth Dies the Death
Jeffrey A. TuckerGoing to the grocery store in Massachusetts in 2020 guaranteed you would breathe heaps of sanitizer. A full-time employee scrubbed down shopping carts between customers. Conveyor belts at the checkout counter were blasted and wiped between every sale. Glass surfaces were sprayed as often as possible. The plastic keypads on credit machines were […]
