Media and Culture

History Channel's Pawn Stars is a capitalistic feast for the free market junkie.

Celebrating anniversaries for the Austrian School of economics. One hundred years ago, Ludwig von Mises began his career as an intellectual leader and creative genius with his groundbreaking The Theory of Money and Credit. Fifty years ago, Murray Rothbard took his own place in the ranks of creative geniuses, and inaugurated the modern Austrian movement with his great treatise Man, Economy, and State. And thirty years ago, Lew Rockwell, with the help of Margit von Mises, Murray Rothbard, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Ron Paul, and heroic donors, created the first institution solely dedicated to Austrian economics, the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

One of the strangest commercial successes to rise from YouTube is the <i>Epic Rap Battles of History</i>.

The Big Pharma–FDA nexus is just one giant conflict of interest against the general public, writes Mark Thornton.

Neither the Right nor the Left will want to admit that D'Souza's film is a long whitewash of the policies of George W. Bush.

Those of us still possessed of our faculties of speech and writing might want to use them to communicate as vividly as we can.

McCarthy's novel conveys the connection between capital and moral order: the core of a civilized society.

I think Murray Rothbard would have liked Christian Bale's portrayal of Bruce Wayne.

The fact that men are born unequal in regard to physical and mental capacities cannot be argued away, writes Ludwig von Mises.

The market economy as a field of liberty, spontaneity, and free coordination cannot thrive in a social system that is the very opposite, writes Wil