Media and Culture

Jeff Deist and Łukasz Dominiak discuss the recent elections in Poland, as well as the street protests that you might not have heard about in western media.

Jeff Deist and Louis Rouanet discuss the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

This week, the dangers of the authoritarian PC culture was driven to the forefront of the national conversation by students at Mizzou. Fortunately, Mises Scholars launched a pre-emptive strike against PC and the degenerating university system at last weekend's Mises Circle in Phoenix. 

Jeff Deist and Tom DiLorenzo discuss PC cancer that is spreading across campuses and universities in America.

When the Soviet Union wanted to take away the rights of Catholics to worship, it confiscated their churches. The Soviets knew that the right to own property is intimately connected to a right of religious freedom. Pope Francis appears to not understand this.

New York State Attorney General says that fantasy football is just as bad for you as the State Lottery. The lottery is actually much worse!

James Bond is not a name that's typically mentioned in discussions of humble foreign policy or the importance of enforceable property rights.

No amount of fantasizing can make fundamental economic realities go away, no matter how much we put our faith in central banks, government regulation, or technologies of the future.

Mike Judge's Silicon Valley, takes a look at the entrepreneurs and capitalists of the high-tech world where oddball inventors learn the hard lessons of Economics 101. It turns out there's a lot more to making money than just being smart.

Millions of pop culture consumers have been affected by the "post scarcity" world portrayed in Star Trek. But even in Star Trek, the claims of having overcome scarcity are belied by the fact that human lives, planets, starships, and time all remain scarce.