Media and Culture

The case against Donald Trump was utterly ridiculous. Yet he was convicted anyway. Opponents of the political establishment need to understand why. 

Long before government mandates and pressure infected businesses and universities with the DEI virus, Ludwig von Mises explained how bureaucracies infect the decision-making process. 

Ryan and Tho discuss recent European elections, the apparent collapse of the British Conservative Party, and how inflation and immigration are influencing a new generation of voters.

The abolition of chattel slavery was a great advancement for human liberty. But many of those celebrating Juneteenth today still accept the core assumptions that underlie slavery.

David Gordon reviews How to Run Wars, by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall. Their tone is satirical, aimed at showing the folly and corruption that marks the policies of the foreign policy elites.

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.