Media and Culture

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.

Austrian capital theory can go a long way in helping to explain why the apes featured in the film can be both highly-intelligent and hunter-gatherers.

Dating someone can come with a very high opportunity cost and can lead to great emotional distress and more, writes Julian Adorney.

It is now fashionable in some intellectual Catholic circles to disparage free markets at every turn, but this requires the critics to ignore the co