Media and Culture

Capitalism is characterized by the private ownership of capital, coming from Lockean homesteading principles, and not from state coercion and force.

The outcry from establishment media figures following the decision by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to not endorse a presidential candidate shows how out of touch they have become about how much we rely on them. 

Puzder supports what is today called “enlightened shareholder values,” according to which shareholders want “woke” goals. 

In the early years, the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony adopted a 17th-century form of socialism and nearly starved to death. They had little to be thankful for until they gave up on dreams of utopia and turned to markets instead.

Voting is controversial among Austro-Libertarians for many reasons. However, if one does choose to vote, one should understand that the state is never constrained by the voters and cannot be “reformed.”

Even though the Supreme Court supposedly banned affirmative action for college admissions, federal law still requires certain outcomes with regards to race, sex, and other characteristics. Federal authorities still want affirmative action to be brought in the back door.

Thanks to unrelenting propaganda from the establishment media, a large number of Americans are suffering from what is diagnosed as “climate anxiety.” 

By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by state-directed outcomes. However, government programs have made things much worse.

In this review of Scott Horton's book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has waged for the past quarter century in the Middle East have been a disaster. Millions of deaths and a massive refugee crisis later, the unmistakable verdict is in.

With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve underlying problems.