Media and Culture

Do Video-Game Worlds Need Government Regulation?

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Political Theory, The Entrepreneur, Media and Culture

01/15/2016 • Giuliano Millan

For some people, there's nothing that can’t be improved by a big dose of government regulation. Now, even the virtual economies of video games are being targeted as the next frontier in labor laws, price controls, and more.

Liberty Defined

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Ron Paul

Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It...

Civilian and the Military

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

Do you have doubts about American wars abroad? Do you worry about their cost, the drain in American resources, the resentments they foster abroad, the death and destruction they bring on all sides? Do you have a sense that these are not truly...

War, Christianity, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

These seventy-six essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, Christianity and the Military, Christianity and the Warfare State, and Christianity and Torture, have one underlying theme: the relation of Christianity to war, the...

Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Ryan McMaken

The Western genre has long been associated with right-wing and libertarian politics, and is said to promote individualism and free-market economics. In a new look at the Western, however, Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti...

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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Education, Media and Culture, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Ron Paul

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America’s broken education...

Against Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan, economist and historian, Robert Higgs, offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power in all its aspects: welfare, warfare, regulation, spying, and its...

Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

At least since World War I, Austrians have pointed to the relationship between warmongering and the decline of economic liberty. In our times, Robert Higgs is the most articulate and learned upholder of the position that free markets require...

Energy: The Master Resource

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert L. Bradley Jr. • Richard W. Fulmer

Robert Bradley, a leading free market energy economist, has in collaboration with Richard Fulmer put together an outstanding book that covers the huge subject of energy, beginning with answers to the most fundamental questions (What is energy...

The Church and the Market

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

In fact, Thomas Woods’s book on Catholic social teaching surpasses any other book ever published in this genre. Rather than merely recount what has been said, he subjects the corpus to a relentless examination, highlighting contradictions and...