Media and Culture

Populists have spent the past decade rebelling against a political system they correctly recognize as rigged. But they keep focusing on its surface-level symptoms while ignoring the institution at its center.

Democratic socialists are always talking about what they will do in the future. That is because they would rather we forget what they did in the past.

For all of his overt hostility toward the United States, George Soros certainly has a strong foothold in the Trump administration, as a number of his acolytes have key positions, including Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.

Marx held that class conflict was the overriding issue of his day, and Marxists still hold to that viewpoint. Their assumptions about class, however, do not square with modern reality.

The Fed wants to keep interest rates low so the government can borrow on the cheap. But bond markets are driving up interest rates as inflation isn't going away.

Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss a recent article from Daniel McCarthy that both criticizes the irrelevance of libertarianism and laments its influence on modern America.

Trump showed how effective it can be to simply declare success and let supporters believe it. Other politicians are taking notes, even as the problems they all pretend to have addressed continue to grow.

Trump showed how effective it can be to simply declare success and let supporters believe it. Other politicians are taking notes, even as the problems they all pretend to have addressed continue to grow.

Dr. Joseph Salerno unpacks Hayek's 1949 essay "The Intellectuals and Socialism," which explains why the intellectual class is systematically biased toward socialism, and why classical liberals must recover their nerve to counter it.

Economist Jeffery Degner joins Ryan McMaken to discuss why government plans to increase the birth rate have never actually worked. But offering to give voters free money for having children is often good politics.