Media and Culture

 One reason the television series is so much more compelling is that it champions the cause of human freedom and self-reliance.

October 10th is the 40th anniversary of the death of Ludwig von Mises.

The website Paper Money Collapse written by Detlev Schlichter is closing down as the author is embar

The Walking Dead suggests that government does not offer solutions to catastrophic problems but in fact only exacerbate them.

Zombie narratives are one of the trends toward global or cosmic catastrophes that show government as the salvation and redeemer.

The viewing public still responds to films and television shows that champion freedom.

Orwell’s future is run by a Party whose job is the total exercise of Power, and it goes about its job with diabolic efficiency and ingenuity.

How can The Art of War help you think like an economist? Because resources are scarce we have to put the goods we do have to the best use. Sun Tzu understood that war is destruction and resources must be preserved. The only good war is one won without fighting.

Interviewed by host Barb Adams, Mark Thornton talks about ‘The Great Gatsby’, the economics of prohibition, gun control, and more.

David Gordon gives a review of John R Lott's At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?.