Media and Culture

Ten years ago, I discovered the Mises Institute. This is the advice I wish I could send back to my younger self.

Advocates of unbacked paper money claim that theirs is the “civilized” choice, as opposed to gold, or what Keynes called “that barbarous relic.” These inflationists, however, are the ones wrecking civilization as we have known it.

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her friends had to worry about wild animals and wicked witches. Today, Americans face a much more formidable foe: their own free-spending government.

The eternal “climate emergency” is upon us. While doomsday is said to be around the corner, the reality is that the only thing rising is the level of government control.

The newly released movie "Killers of the Flower Moon" depicts what happens when politically connected people can use the state to carry out nefarious deeds. Unfortunately, government failure is one lesson that is sure to be lost here.

David Gordon reviews Only a Voice, by George Scialabba, dealing with the author's comments on antiwar progressives Randolph Bourne and Dwight Macdonald.

A Cato Institute associate has declared the development of the covid-19 vaccines to be a free-market “triumph.” The only thing that has triumphed in this sorry episode has been the rapid growth of coercive government power.

The Biden administration claims it wants to get out in front of the development of artificial intelligence. However, the likely scenario is that AI will leave government regulators in its wake.

One way to combat intellectual atrophy is to learn from Ibram Kendi’s mistakes and do the opposite.

Not only is Washington in political turmoil, but the policies emanating from the Beltway are more incoherent than ever.