Media and Culture

"Like all things designed to suit the taste of the masses, advertising is repellent to people of delicate feeling."

"Economic trends are finally beyond the control of the political class."

Is there any reason a reader should place any more confidence in the work of an historian than in the work of an historical novelist? The answer is that everything depends on what historian we're talking about, what novelist we're talking about, and what kind of historical fiction we're talking about.

This free-market system encouraged just the right mix of tradition and innovation.

"The film brilliantly portrays how the Right prepares the way for the Left — in both the United States and Russia."

We have become the people our founding fathers warned us (and tried to protect us) against.

Whether one calls oneself a Communist, Socialist, New Dealer, or just plain "democrat," one begins with the premise that the individual is of consequence only as a servant of the mass idol.

Central economic planning and laissez-faire capitalism are completely incompatible concepts — by definition.

The Mises Circle in Colorado, sponsored by the Limited Government Forum of Colorado Springs, 4 April 2009.

Ultimately, then, the effects of Earth Hour boil down to dim rhetoric. Maybe as much attention should be placed on humanity's hot air footprint as its carbon one.