Jeffrey Tucker

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Jeffrey Tucker

CommentaryThe U.S. Mint will stop making the penny next year. The reasons are purely practical. It costs three times as much to make as it is worth. Dropping it will save $56 million. Most people don’t carry them anyway; the bulk of the existing stock is thrown out or in jars at home. Presidents have urged this for many years, but the time has finally come. Many people will be relieved. Someone gave me pennies in change just the other day.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Jeffrey Tucker

CommentaryNo president in U.S. history has taken office with such a determined agenda as Donald Trump. The number of Executive Orders alone demonstrates the point. In the first 100 days, he has issued 152 of them, or 10 times the average number issued by his predecessors. The highest record previously was set by Franklin Delano Roosevelt with 110; that presidency is part of American legend. Clearly, he came prepared.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Jeffrey Tucker

CommentaryThere are few if any fashion rules remaining in American life. You are obviously aware of this. If not, just look around. We are painfully aware even when attending the symphony at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Jeans and sneakers are the norm, and anyone in black or white tie is presumed to be the conductor or star soloist. That’s our world today. We’ve all adapted in some way, at least mentally and emotionally, if not in practice.

1 week ago | fhicommunications.com | Jeffrey Tucker

The first report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is out, with a particular focus on children’s health. The relatively short report includes astonishing data on obesity, heart disease, diabetes, life expectancy, substance abuse, mental illness, and many other terribles. The report is a shock, a painful read, a five-alarm fire, and the charts alone are astonishing. It is embedded below for your reading misery. “This report—Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment—is a call to action.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Jeffrey Tucker

CommentaryThere are certain figures in the history of ideas who have exercised wild influence over the course of human affairs. We know some of their names (Aquinas, Locke, Jefferson, Marx, Darwin, Einstein, Keynes) but other mighty figures are less well understood in our times, such as G.F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, and many others. One in particular stands out as something of a hidden architect of the ethos and aspiration alive in the West since his life and works.