Media and Culture

Sharks is a great reference for those looking for some background on the real players in Las Vegas who make headlines and billions, writes Doug French.

Various fearsome characters will soon be chanting “trick or treat” at doors all over America.

Freakonomics (William Morrow, 2005) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.

The marketplace is a wonderful place, writes Chris Westley, except when it's MarketPlace, that public radio program that airs mornings and evenings.

Watching the Capitol Hill hearings on what went wrong after Hurricane Katrina provided a glimpse of what it must have been like in the Politburo in the 1950s, writes Lew Rockwell.

It's not always easy being a free market thinker and a Catholic, writes Chris Westley. Woods comes to the rescue.

President Bush tells us to drive less and limit trips to only the essentials, writes Joseph Potts. Huber and Mills have the antidote.

Jim Fedako explains that if recycling were really efficient and not wasteful, people would not have to be browbeaten to do it.

The Gulf Coast was hit with two disasters: Katrina and government. At every level and in every way, writes William Anderson, it made everything worse.

John Lukacs, in his own estimation, is much more than an ordinary historian. In what he considers his most important book, Historical Consciousness