Media and Culture

Bob Murphy explores the precise reasons for why (or why not) a long-running academic hoax reflects poorly on the targeted fields.

The rising generation is brought up in an environment that is engrossed in socialist ideas.

Bob Murphy deconstructs some contradictory progressive viewpoints.

Bob Murphy interviews Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road website.

Terrence Malick's new film about conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter is a subtle film. But perhaps too much so, and we need to look deeper to understand why this one man so vehemently resisted the Nazi state at the cost of his own life.

Bob Murphy and Tareq Haddad discuss how US authorities pressured the OPCW to change the report to fit their desired narrative, and how powerful groups control the corporate media.

The great libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz warned that health officials could use their "expertise" to push a political agenda. We're now living in that world.

Whether diversity is a social benefit depends on whether it creates excuses to fight each other for special treatment. Politicizing our differences is far more likely to make diversity a source of conflict.

Bob Murphy interviews journalist and stand-up comic Lindsay Goldwert.