Media and Culture

The F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture sponsored by Don Printz.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture sponsored by Helio Beltrão.

Guido Hülsmann and Jeff Deist discuss the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.

New York will legalize MMA, but plans to tax Mixed Martial Arts events at an even higher rate than boxing or wrestling matches.

Whenever government wants to raise taxes, it immediately threatens to cut the most popular government programs first, if it doesn't get its way. Thus, the governor of Louisiana says he'll cut LSU's football program.

Created by Paul Pope, a libertarian comic book writer also responsible for the critically acclaimed Batman: Year 100, Berlin Batman was an Elseworld tale published in 1998's The Batman Chronicles #11. The story involves young Baruch Wane, a wealthy socialite, who is tipped off that the police have just confiscated the library and works of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises.

The importance of economic messages in media has not been lost on Austrian economists. Mises, for example, had much to say throughout his career about the importance of novels and the media in shaping people’s ideas about political economy.

In his children's book on life under the Stalin cult, Breaking Stalin's Nose, author Eugene Yelchin examines a child's encounter of the difference between propaganda and reality.

Studies of the improving Cuban culinary scene after Fidel Castro's stepping down from power reminds us of how socialism actually impoverished the people by making their mundane, ordinary lives much more difficult to live.

The intended message of the JetBlue commercial is that if we just work together and make some sacrifices, we can all win. However, it actually showcased the inherent flaws in democratic processes.