The recent deaths of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his bride, and her sister, are tragic for their families, their friends, and the staff at George Magazine . For all of the media hype, however, it is not a national tragedy any more than it is a national calamity that several other private pilots died in crashes on the same day. Of course, the sudden
A pestilence stalks the land. It threatens to undo the current economic expansion. It may undo any social good that has been accomplished this past decade and may even result in blood in the streets. What is this unspeakable horror, this evil genie that, if fully unleashed, could mean the downfall of us all? What is this scourge that causes
For those of us who see television news and commentary as a vast, statist wasteland, the work of John Stossel has been welcome relief. Each week on the ABC show 20/20, Stossel has his “Give Me a Break” segment in which he comments acerbically on the latest follies of government regulation and taxation. Stossel’s brief commentary, along with the
Although I am hardly a television junkie, I am quite aware of the grand success enjoyed by the new NBC Wednesday-night drama, “The West Wing.” At the recent Emmys, it received more awards than any other drama, and it apparently has a huge and faithful following. The star of the show is Martin Sheen, who plays President Josiah Bartlett, a left-wing
The “leftist slant” of the mainstream news media in the United States tends to be in the eye of the beholder. For example, when former CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg claimed in his recent book Bias that mainstream news figures such as Dan Rather and others demonstrated outward leftist sentiments, the attacks upon him by his former colleagues
With the passing of John Gotti , the former “head” of the Gambino crime family, we have been treated to a series of media stories, some of which condemn the Teflon Don and others versed in a grudging admiration for this character. These stories have managed to miss nearly every lesson this violent man’s life had to show us. Gotti was by all
When I click onto the Drudgereport.com site these days, I often am greeted with an advertising bar at the top of the page that declares, “Boycott France.” As we have heard ad nauseum , France was against the war, so France is against the United States, so we should not buy French products to punish the insolence of those people. For the past few
The revelation that journalists working for ABC News successfully smuggled in 15 pounds of depleted uranium from Indonesia (to highlight gaps in U.S. government security procedures) caused a huge stir both in government and in journalism itself. In fact, some factions in the U.S. Department of Justice would like to prosecute the journalists,
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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