Podcast

Jeff Deist and Allen Mendenhall discuss "stakeholder" capitalism and what we can do to push back against ideological purity tests.

The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania.

How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off.

Ryan and Tho feel obligated to discuss the State of the Union address.

Progressives like to claim that "America" has a "gun violence problem." However, the "gun violence problem" happens to exist in places where progressives dominate the government.

Monetary authorities have come up with numerous clever ways of measuring money. However, they are unable even to define money, much less measure it.

As life expectancy has risen, so have runaway costs. Raising the age won't make Social Security just, prudent, or wise. But cutting federal spending is always the right thing to do. 

Americans often have defended the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as regrettable but necessary for ending World War II. The actual record tells us a much different story.

In its unending quest for power, the state has no problem traumatizing the innocent.

A recession looks more likely every day, and the latest sign of this is slowing price growth in producer prices. After all, price inflation usually slows as the economy weakens and consumers run out of easy money.