Media and Culture

With the death of Pope John Paul II last week, writes Christopher Westley, many have compared his intellectual contributions to those of Ludwig von Mises.

No taxpayer money was needed to construct the Las Vegas Motor Speedway or the arenas at various casinos. Funding to build a baseball stadium should be no different.

Hans Hoppe writes: "If I made one mistake, it was that I was too cooperative and waited too long to go on the offensive."
 

Lew Rockwell visits Justin Raimondo's great biography of the master thinker.

Lew Rockwell shares some thoughts on the rise of red-state fascism in America, and the libertarian response.

Thomas Woods reflects on the response to his popular history book, a book written in-between two other works serving primarily academic markets. When they stop attacking you, he concludes, you have ceased to do real history.

The professors of tomorrow can either be free to think, research, write, and publish, without interference by the state or its proxies, or they risk becoming what Barzun calls commissars with PhDs.

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-18-2005

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Thomas DiLorenzo discusses his book How Capitalism Saved America - The Untold History of Our Country from the Pilgrims to the Present at a