Media and Culture

Many think cancel culture is an odd particularity of the Anglosphere. Unfortunately, it raised its ugly head at this year's Austrian Economics Meeting Europe held in Lithuania.

Although social media is blamed for many social ills, the sickness doesn't come from Twitter or Facebook but from how the ruling classes have politicized life itself.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss how the state uses holidays as a culture war weapon.

One of Google's latest projects has been the development of LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), an artificially intelligent chatbot generator. Alas, Google has created another "woke" monster.

Juneteenth is an example of a fiat holiday, imposed upon the nation by an imperial city to promote a specific cultural agenda.

After World War I, conservatism was transformed from an antiegalitarian, antistatist ideological force into a movement of culturally conservative statists: the right wing of the socialists and social democrats.

Laurence Vance explains that Mises's writings criticize both theism and atheism insofar as they are guilty of conflating economic fallacy and divine will.

Bob Murphy talks inflation and why suddenly everyone is an expert, and then why Jim Rogers says buy a motorcycle and see the world: It's a great way to get an education. Jeff and Peyton Gouzien discuss big questions like liberalism and illiberalism in the twentieth century and David Gordon reviews The Lords of Easy Money, a thoroughgoing critique of the subversive power of the Fed.

The presence of American companies in foreign nations was once seen as a sign of American superiority and an instrument of American cultural power. Not anymore.

In Nock's view, the usurpation of social power by state power went hand in glove with a rise in war, intra-social conflict, arbitrary authority, indebtedness, and many other injustices.