Media and Culture

Ryan's lecture at Mises University 2024

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho are joined by friend of the show, Peter St. Onge.

Social justice is a nonsensical term that interferes with the attempts to find authentic justice. It is not about equality so much as it is about imposing outcomes incompatible with a free society.

One of the reasons for the hard-left turn in higher education has been the increasing radicalization of accreditation agencies. It is important for colleges and universities to break away from these agencies and rethink the accreditation process.

The 1866 civil rights law was historical not because it promised racial equality but because it changed the legal relationship between the states and the federal government.

By appealing to the self-interest of buyers and sellers, capitalism foils attempts by lawmakers to create racially constructed limits on voluntary exchange. Capitalism undermines racism.

The degrowth movement seeks to mitigate climate change by ending economic growth, which is really a move to engage in large-scale depopulation.

Critics of capitalism claim that private enterprise gives workers the unhappy choice of either working difficult, low-paying jobs or outright starving. The claim is false and the history of capitalism tells a different story.

While much of what Jordan Peterson does is admirable, he fails to understand the libertarian right. This leads to a lot of analytical errors and a failure to understand Austrian economics.

The application of Austrian economics to the study of games, video games, and virtual worlds.