Media and Culture

Benjamin Tucker wrote that "Power feeds on its spoils, and dies when its victims refuse to be despoiled."

New anti-gun book reveals the class hatred felt by intellectuals for a broad section of the American people, says Joseph Stromberg. 

On the Internet, a war between government-backed trademark holders and small web entrepreneurs is heating up. Thanks to the current managers of the Internet and a little-known agency of the United Nations, the trademark holders are winning.

Fifty years ago, the court broke the movie industry into two parts. The result was disastrous for consumers.

It's trendy to decry competition as socially destructive. The reverse is true, argues Tibor Machan.  

For two years, the White House has been haranguing owners of large websites, telling them not to violate their visitors' supposed right to privacy. Now, just on the face of it, this is absurd. The proper way to think about websites is as private property. When you go to a website, you are a visitor on someone else's property; the owner has the right to record what interests you. If you don't like it, you shouldn't visit. It's that simple.

For those of us who see television news and commentary as a vast, statist wasteland, the work of John Stossel has been welcome relief. But now he's under attack.

Paulina Borsook thinks the web breeds selfish geeks who don't care about others. Is she the Sinclair Lewis of our time?  

In the past, smart French students dreamed of attending the ENA, an educational citadel of government planning. No longer.

In addition to sobering tales of government malfeasance, a new work by Roberts and Stratton offers us a theory explaining why these abuses occur: review by Robert Murphy