Media and Culture

Man the producer must have freedom, while man the predator puts limitations on freedom, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for help from nobody.

At least one reviewer was dismayed that everything had a price in the <i>True Grit</i> story. Indeed, Mattie Ross is constantly making economic calculations while trying to make the best deals she can.

For a comedy movie, The Other Guys is a shining example of the kind of problems that plague our current financial system. While it is doubtful that the writers meant to use the movie to display the kind of underhanded affairs big business has with the government, it is certainly a subject interwoven throughout the film.

The case of Terri Schiavo is almost as controversial as it is tragic.The controversy? Her husband is adamant that the doctors pull the plug on Terri, and her parents are just as determined to keep her alive.

In our times, a major reason, and perhaps the major reason, for the phenomenal progress of the ideas of liberty is the work of the Mises Institute.

Mencken wrote that the sine qua non of all good criticism should be its ability to stand alone as a piece of art regardless of the qualities inherent in the object of the criticism. Cantor, Cox, and the other critics whose essays appear in Literature and the Economics of Liberty attain this goal.

Joan Samson was a Depression baby, born in 1937. In 1975, the year before her death, she published her only novel, <i>The Auctioneer</i>. This seems to be just about the sum total of what is publicly known about her, and that is a damn shame.