Media and Culture

It's not always easy being a free market thinker and a Catholic, writes Chris Westley. Woods comes to the rescue.

President Bush tells us to drive less and limit trips to only the essentials, writes Joseph Potts. Huber and Mills have the antidote.

Jim Fedako explains that if recycling were really efficient and not wasteful, people would not have to be browbeaten to do it.

The Gulf Coast was hit with two disasters: Katrina and government. At every level and in every way, writes William Anderson, it made everything worse.

John Lukacs, in his own estimation, is much more than an ordinary historian. In what he considers his most important book, Historical Consciousness

It looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer for the downfall of a corrupt regime on the big screen. Warner Bros.

Thomas DiLorenzo has written a masterpiece, says Laurence M. Vance. We have not only a great reference source, but a great weapon in our arsenal against all varieties of socialism, interventionism, and anticapitalism.

Is the Mafia like a state that uses violence to enforce its agenda? Or is it more like a private business that specializes in the market provision of security? Robert Murphy reviews a book on the topic.

You know why so many men walk around with sloppy hair? We hate haircuts. You have to drive there to get one, which represents decline, because if you know about Figaro from Rossini's "Barber of Seville," the barber came to your home (but then he also pulled out your teeth and passed on furtive notes arranging encounters of various sort, etc.).

Pete Boettke, Chris Coyne and Peter T. Leeson have a new blog: The Austrian Economists.