Self Censorship
One by-product of the Paris terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo was an outpouring of support for freedom of speech.
One by-product of the Paris terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo was an outpouring of support for freedom of speech.
Jeff Deist and Connor Boyak discuss how to raise happy, productive, responsible children who are knowledgeable about liberty, property, economics, and personal finance.
Some music aficionados are complaining that the market's efforts to better deliver what people want are encouraging "bad music." In truth, music markets are providing more opportunities for the making of new music than ever before.
The film’s most redeeming quality can be found in the fact that it makes the US intelligence apparatus look useless and inept.
Peter Klein discusses the economics of sports business and the role that crony capitalism plays.
Ridley Scott's new sword-and-sandal epic Exodus: Gods and Kings is jam-packed with political messages and imagery. Unfortunately, none of it ever gels into an interesting movie involving interesting characters.
Christmas is the most pro-capitalist of all holidays because its worldly joys are based on private property, voluntary exchange, and mutual benefit. It's also one of the least political of all major holidays.
In less than 20 minutes David Gordon surveys Plato, Aristotle, Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium, Frenchman Frederic Bastiat, Franz Oppenheimer, and Albert Jay Nock.
Ebenezer Scrooge is guilty of no crime, but he is a bad economist. This is demonstrated by Scrooge's ignorance about the subjective nature of value, and by his insistence that he is being robbed by his clerk who negotiates a day off.
Writing in Time magazine this week, Darlena Cunha compares the Ferguson riots of today — as well as the Los Angeles riots of 1992 — to the Boston Tea Party, arguing that such events are similar, well within the American tradition of social change.