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Tobacco Speakeasy

Prohibition Lite Is Making RYO Cigarettes All the Rage

JUNE 19, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

Smokers haven't had to roll their own cigarettes in nearly a century. If the State can reduce the market for one of the most-traded items on earth to this level, what can't it ruin?

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The Character of Edward Snowden

JUNE 11, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

Edward Snowden heroically gave up a comfortable life to expose the machinery of oppression under which we all live.

Anything Peaceful

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

MAY 29, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

Digits are the ultimate draft dodgers, and Bitcoin is notably fleet of foot.

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Advice to Young, Unemployed Workers

MAY 16, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

Times are tough for young workers--especially since they've mostly been lied to throughout their lives. Coming to terms with some hard truths now, though, will give them the chance to thrive.

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Meet the Targets or Die the Death

APRIL 25, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

The Atlanta schools cheating scandal is the expected result of State interference in the incentive structure.

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Bitcoin for Beginners

APRIL 02, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

Bitcoin is a revolutionary example of entrepreneurial awareness solving the problems caused by the State.

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To Free One's Mind

FEBRUARY 26, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

Anarchism is not the dream of a far-off world free from the State. It's the understanding that human society flourishes all around us despite the State's constant interference.

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Headphones: Paradigm of Market Progress

JANUARY 14, 2013 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

When companies compete to provide people with what they want, previously unimagined products and services spring into being to serve the infinite diversity of the human family. The headphone market richly illustrates this lesson.

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How We Found Ourselves

NOVEMBER 29, 2012 by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

GPS devices have freed people from the profound problem of having no idea where we are or where we're going--and it was only possible once governments got out of the way.