Everyone knows the rule: drink no liquor before noon. How insufferable such advice is! It has caused morning drinkers to hide their habits, deny them when confronted, and otherwise feel like they are doing something wrong or immoral or socially intolerable, a combination which leads to other forms of pathology.
At the Mises University this year, there will be another performance of “Mises: The Musical“
Pro-market movies seem atypical for Hollywood, and a thoughtful summer blockbuster seems almost an oxymoron.
Pundits and bloggers are addicted to decrying the supposed cell-phone addiction of Americans, writes Jeffrey Tucker. Actually, there is a rational explanation for why we observe so much cell-phone yammer and why we find it so alarming.
What's the best book on money ever written? That's an easy one: What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard. The Mises Institute is bringing out a new edition, and uniting it with Rothbard's radical blueprint for monetary reform. You can help.
In a series of editorials cleverly disguised as news stories, the New York Times is using highly misleading data to stoke envy and class hatred. George Reisman takes apart the latest in the series.
Every season there is a new contender for the conservative mini-treatise of the day. Usually written by the newest would-be Buckley, it offers readers a new way of understanding the ideological climate and a new perspective on how conservatives should fit within it.
Is Freakonomics worth the hype? Yes and no, in Robert Murphy's opinion.
