Media and Culture

One of the problems in presenting economic concepts to a public audience is that too many people in the academic world do not comprehend the simple presence of opportunity cost. 

Murray Rothbard noted that the culture wars are not the result of conservative intransigence but rather of progressive elites’ insistence on forcing new cultural rules on people who don’t want to be coerced.

The decolonization movement seeks to destroy both economics and science, all in the name of social justice. In the end, however, what they get is not justice and certainly not order, but rather chaos, and deadly chaos at that.

The US government’s recent arms sale to Israel is a reminder that arms sales have become a significant part of US foreign policy, as well as a major source of instability around the world.

Mark Thornton joins Ryan and Tho to discuss the current state of the economy and what to expect as we near the election.

Socialism does not infect our body politic just through economic measures. The current obessession with implementing DEI policies has all of the hallmarks of how socialist measures undermine a private property order.

Israel’s defenders act like Netanyahu and his allies have had no choice but to react to October 7 in the manner that they have. But that isn’t true.

We are seeing Joseph Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction at work in higher education. The shake-up will continue.

Government schooling advocates are demanding that homeschoolers be regulated by public school authorities. Perhaps homeschooling advocates should be monitoring the government.

Ryan and Tho are joined by Mises Institute Senior Editor Bill Anderson to discuss Donald Trump's conviction.