Media and Culture

In a new book Literature and Liberty, Allen Mendenhall brings a fresh eye to literary criticism — a discipline long marred by doctrinaire Marxism.

The bias in favor of "education" is a bias in favor of the opinions of the intellectual classes: it is a devotion to the status quo.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone at the Mises Institute.

Yuri Maltsev, a victim of Soviet totalitarianism in his youth, explains how and why westerners still don't understand what socialism really means.

Only peaceful social cooperation enables us to take advantage of the best parts of human life and escape the tyranny of biological competition.

Whenever you disagree with anybody, don't debate ideas, go right into name calling.

Pundits like Paul Krugman have become true masters of wildly incorrect speculation.

Thanks to the rise of decentralized, internet-based journalism, and general public dissatisfaction with "establishment" media, the opinion-molding class is losing its power to mold opinion.

Inferno features a Malthusian villain set on halving the world's population out of overpopulation fears. Let us unpack this myth.

A pro-tax disciple of Henry George gave us the board game we know today as Monopoly.