Media and Culture

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 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.

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.

Professor Block is a handsome fellow. But he is not likely to appear on the catwalk anytime soon, writes Ben O’Neill.

The show was neither utopian nor dystopian. It was the best of life as we know it projected far into the future.

Narrated by Paul Strikwerda.

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s masterpiece celebrating capitalism and the individual, is a rare accomplishment. It still holds up, more than ever.

Humans are always looking for patterns as a matter of survival, and when the picture isn't complete our brains fill in the blanks.

Social justice actually refers to an intention to use force to acquire one’s desires.

Literature and the Economics of Liberty shows that it is possible to discuss works of literature without wholesale condemnation of capitalism.