Media and Culture

Vigilance about co-opted semantics is vital because language mediates thoughts, actions, and hence public debate and policy.

Death duties loot the productive, destroy capital, and bring about a damaging social upheaval. Hans Sennholz explains.
 

By subsidizing sports facilities, governments are taxing average people and boosting the incomes of some very wealthy individuals. What justification exists for this practice?

In the 1950s, the government hatched a plan for martial law, state-planned production, and rationing in the event of a nuclear holocaust. It would have failed.

MetLife is under fire for doing exactly what insurance companies are supposed to do: matching risk with premiums. 

A former secretary of labor regrets the state's declining effective power over economic life. A review by Christopher Westley. 

James Ostrowski examines the Supreme Court ruling against medical marijuana: an accurate interpretation of a nauseating law.

Yes, there are monopolies in the world, all of them created by government. Merging media moguls are not among them, says Ilana Mercer.

How a great advance in political theory became a justification for the all-controlling state. Review by Joseph Stromberg. 

Hit-in-the-head movies are usually pathetic. Some guy takes a fall and learns to see the world a new way, which invariably involves becoming more politically correct and marrying a feminist or some such. "Memento" is not to be confused with one of these. It is surely one of the most brilliant and innovative films to come along in years.