Media and Culture

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.

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.