It feels like a silly thing to say, but board games are not real life. Playing a few rounds of Operation does not make you a surgeon. Unlike in Battleship, real-world battleships do not sit still on a ten-by-ten grid.

Similarly, Monopoly does not correlate to “free-market capitalism,” despite anticapitalist claims like this tweet with over a million views:

These hot, lazy days of summer have investors lulled to a comfortable slumber with a foot firmly on the gas pedal.

This year during Mises University, we want to share the perspective of students in the program. The following are YouTube shorts from some of this year’s Mises Apprentices, interviewing some of their favorite faculty members.