Media and Culture

While economics textbooks are weak on causes of the Great Depression, American history texts are even worse. It’s time for some truth telling.

Using the rhetoric of “protecting democracy,” American ruling elites have tried to censor the internet because they don’t like the results of democracy when information no longer is filtered by the political classes.

Jamaicans are willing to accept authoritarian behavior from the state in the name of rejecting colonialism.

The movie Wonka is unwittingly a lesson in the dangers of crony capitalism. Willy Wonka, however, beats the odds by being a Misesian entrepreneur.

Higher education promotes itself as the leader in equitable outcomes, but the reality is quite different, especially when it comes to women.

Many cities and states in this country have been tearing down or destroying monuments because they represent part of a past that progressives and leftists believe should not have existed. Yet each time we tear down something, we potentially lose part of an important heritage.

As the NCAA Transfer Portal and the NIL programs change the landscape of college sports, critics claim it will "ruin" athletics. Most likely, it will make sports even more competitive and energize fan bases.

It seems U.S. government officials are entitled to blindfold and deceive the American people to avoid “intruding” on foreign leaders planning a military attack? This theory of democracy gets curiouser and curiouser.

The recent campus protests following the Hamas-Israel conflict have been framed as either antiapartheid or anti-Semitic. The conflict is much deeper, being rooted in toxic identity politics.

No president receives a free pass for tyrannical conduct more than does Franklin D. Roosevelt. Historian David Beito looks behind the curtain.