Media and Culture

Bob Murphy analyzes and critiques Dave Chappelle’s role as the court jester in “Sticks & Stones”.

Libertarian Christians should be aware that they are not compromising their beliefs or somehow acting in a way divorced from Christian history and orthodoxy when they do not join illiberal Christians in their quest for power and control over non-believers.

The Puritan impulse for social reform produced social control that has been secularized, centralized, and has achieved a kind of permanence within government bureaucracy.

Bob Murphy and Robert Anthony Peters discuss acting and his latest short film, Tank Man.

Among themselves, libertarians often see important dividing lines among various factions in terms of social views and lifestyles. But most on the outside define libertarianism as being overwhelmingly for one thing: excessive and "dogmatic" devotion to free markets.

Bob Murphy explains a common rhetorical dodge that he’s encountered from both the progressive Left and the conservative Right.

Bob Murphy and Robby Soave discuss the corporate media.

Bob Murphy analyzes John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic They Live, starring Roddy Piper.

Teaching literature has changed now that the humanities have become a species of what is known as grievance studies, concerned with whether a given author is sexist or racist or classist. This is a cultural shift in education, and not for the better.