Media and Culture

There are numerous critics of free markets. However, all of those critics also are consumers and they gladly depend upon free markets to satisfy their needs.

Biden's hidden illness, Trump's surprise foreign-policy pivot, and America's bond meltdown. Don't miss the inaugural episode of the Power & Market Podcast, a weekly news recap from the Mises Institute’s editorial team.

Progressives have repeated the Malthus theme of overpopulation for six decades. However, the real demographic problem facing modern industrial nations has been the dearth of population growth fueled by an inflation culture.

Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to make higher education readily available, the value of a college degree has been severely degraded.

The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.

Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does.

Homeschooled children are educated more effectively than public school students and at a fraction of the cost of public education. Naturally, the government wants to destroy it, with Illinois currently leading the anti-homeschooling mob.

As the progressive left and the anti-trade right merge their arguments, the current political atmosphere is quickly turning into a witch hunt. Unfortunately, we know that these situations don't end well.

Peterson implies the “dark tetrad” is emerging on the non-interventionist right, cloaking their real intentions with conservative rhetoric. Interestingly, however, a historical parallel exists in neoconservatism, whose intellectual roots are deeply rooted in Machiavellianism.

Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry, which is why we always should question those political decisions that can turn our lives upside down.