Media and Culture

The NCAA ensures there is no functioning job market for athletes and no competition to which students might go seeking higher pay, writes Andrew Sy

The war on drugs has no benefits, just costs and negative unintended consequences. These include drug-addict crime, drug-dealer violence, bribery and corruption, and the increase in drug potency to deadly levels.

Politicians and the mainstream media have faith in the central banks to manipulate and manage the global economy.

Dr. Gordon provides recommended readings for understanding the Cold War. Communist totalitarianism did not necessitate an aggressive foreign policy.

Mises and Rothbard are exemplars of what can be considered a modest life that bore remarkable fruit.

The Flashman Papers serve not only as the enjoyable, politically-incorrect memoirs of the world’s greatest cad, but also as bowdlerization-free historical accounts including the stumbling, botched efforts of an empire that can’t leave anyone alone.

There’s a lot of exciting work being done in the field of literary studies, which isn’t usually known for its sound economics, writes Matt McCaffre

Thanks to Henry Hazlitt, Paul Cantor and others, a body of work by free-market literary critics is now beginning to emerge, writes Jo Ann Cavallo.

Austrian capital theory explains why creating a more technologically-advanced society is easier said than done, writes Mark Tovey.

Starting in 1974, the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), based at that time in Menlo Park, California, began an ambitious plan to resurrect the then near to dead Austrian school of thought in economics.