Media and Culture

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.

It’s cheap, compact, durable, and superior in many aspects to online and print publishing.

The Rube Goldberg machine: some crazy convoluted way of accomplishing a task that would otherwise be quite simple. A perfect way to describe the Clinton health care plan and emerging Social Security reform.

We tend to think of economics as a sterile, number-clotted discipline, writes Colby Cosh, but most of the great economists have antagonized the received wisdom of their day.

The economy is not depression proof, writes Lew Rockwell. If the government and the Federal Reserve are willing to work hard enough, they can kill off even the most robust economic expansion.

A reader of the Mises film page sends in an upcoming film that may be of interest.

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.