Media and Culture

How statism pollutes our language in ways we don't always recognize. This is Walter Block's third essay in a great series on this topic.  

It's not the high costs to the bank that explain why fast cash is pricey. These fees are simply a market price for a service that is highly in demand.

Reich, Gore, and McCain warn that keeping more wealth in private hands would threaten prosperity. This claim is absurd. 

Ralph Raico reviews This Perfect Day, a science fiction "dystopian" novel by Ira Levin. Read what he has to say about the great book on super-computers and global government.

Walter Block decries statists who distort the meaning of words, and also those who kowtow to their politically correct agenda.

The census is intrusive by nature, but the Clinton administration's version is brazenly pro-welfare, outrageously invasive, and costly even for states that supposedly benefit from its results. 

In a display of amazing ignorance or brazen political grandstanding, he strode up to a gas station and berated the owner for charging too high a price.

All talk of disproportionate wealth gains belongs in the dustbin of history. 

Statism has so permeated our culture that even the games we play reflect the popular belief in omnipotent government. For example, one of the most successful computer games of all time is the SimCity series, which requires the player to plan a city in exhaustive detail from uninhabited terrain. Over five million copies of the game have been sold, and each version to date has reflected a government-centered view of the world.

In a hyper-political age, the words we use, says Walter Block, can reveal hidden political and economic agendas.