Media and Culture

I’ve never had much use for Penn and Teller, a pair of comedians that I’ve seen from time to time on television and then have quickly t

Hey, remember that blue flu that was going to sweep

A list of some films of particular interest to Austrians and libertarians.

From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama.

States had the right to secede. The War Between the States was not launched to free slaves. Lincoln believed that whites were superior and favored the deportation of freed slaves. The South was for free trade; the North wanted protectionism.

My disagreement with Ms. Baum regarding central banking is at base a disagreement about what exactly is money and credit.

Another book by Th

Recorded at Mises University 2006.

We have such a bias against commercial art in our culture that Cantor tries to show that some of the great art of the past grew out of commercial activity. Cantor had never played a video game, so he had to work through those. He sees that this is where things are going.

Television is not better because you don’t want it to be. The relation of government and television and movies are certainly not free markets, just relatively free markets. TV has always been in a regulated environment. TV is licensed by the federal government.