Selling Liberty: National Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Chicago, 9 April 2011.
Media and Culture
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The Anticapitalistic Bias of American Intellectuals
In the U.S., an almost unsurmountable gulf separates “society” from the intellectuals, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).
Friedrich Hayek and American Science Fiction
When Hayek came into Mises’s employ, he favored the democratic-socialist politics of Wieser, his mentor at the university.
Rebecca Black’s “Friday”: A Libertarian Allegory
The astonishing popularity of Rebecca Black's "Friday" video — which became the YouTube meme of all memes in the course of a wild six weeks — has mystified many critics.
Rango: A Libertarian Spiritual Epic
Rango is a journey into the soul, and it depicts the trials of individuation haunted by the constant specter of death. There are strong libertarian overtones of the relationship of the individual to society and establishing a connection between redemption and the search for wealth.
Anne Hathaway and Automatic Trading
Faced with such apparently nonsensical results as the Anne Hathaway effect, automatic trading programs look silly. On the other hand, this is true of any task to which humans put computers; it doesn't mean computers are useless.
OMG! There’s Discrimination in the Modeling Industry!
Professor Block is a handsome fellow. But he is not likely to appear on the catwalk anytime soon, writes Ben O’Neill.
Pushing Buttons Like the Jetsons
The show was neither utopian nor dystopian. It was the best of life as we know it projected far into the future.
