Media and Culture

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward him.

Some modern historians claim they are “doing science.” However, Ludwig von Mises in Theory and History decried what he saw as “scientism” instead of real scientific inquiry.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya explains how “phony civil rights” expand state power at the expense of self-ownership and property, and offers a conservative-libertarian case for liberty rooted in reality.

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”

On the John Curley Show, Ryan McMaken presents a practical case for strengthening families by shrinking Leviathan’s reach.

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”

A refrain in the television series Foundation is that individuals and individual actions do not matter, but this is even disavowed as the story is told.

When we think of the term “equality,” most of us think of it in a formal sense: equality under the law. However, political elites are demanding “substantive” equality, which is impossible to achieve.

Dr. Shawn Ritenour explains how economic freedom—grounded in private property, sound money, and voluntary exchange—turns “class conflict” into cooperation through the division of labor.

New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Here is a sampling of recently published articles.