Media and Culture

The New York Times claims that the "administrative state"—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss Jill Biden's "Latinx" outreach and recent polling that illustrates a dramatic shift in political voting patterns.

The American people deserve to know who is trying to shut them up … and why.

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.