Media and Culture

Includes comments and an introduction by Jeff Deist. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2015.

Jurassic World is the latest film to portray deadly disasters supposedly caused by profit-seeking run amok. But would the private sector really produce a super-smart dinosaur that is likely to eat many of the customers?

Tom Woods’s book The Church and the Market revolutionized the economics debate among Catholics, and it explained how religion cannot replace economic science any more than it can replace physics. Understanding reality, and how to seek religious ends within it, depends on good science.

Better Call Saul, a spinoff of mega-hit Breaking Bad, explores the many ways that government spies on us to control and ruin our lives. In response, many turn to making a living through less-than-honest means because so few options are left to them.

Mark Thornton is interviewed by Phil Pepin on The Pursuit of Freedom radio show

Mark Thornton and host Albert Lu discuss the recent violence and in cities such as Ferguson or Balti

Homer Economicus is the subject of a question on the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

The Bruno Leoni Lecture, sponsored by Christopher P. Condon.

Kingsman: The Secret Service is a big-budget semi-satirical take on the spy genre, featuring the film clichés audiences now associate with the James Bond and Jason Bourne franchises.

The new Netflix series Marco Polo might have descended into a forgettable story of palace intrigue, but it fortunately explores far more interestin