Media and Culture

The Wild Wheel

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History

02/01/1952 • Garet Garrett

No one, but no one, tells the story of the Ford Motor Company like Garet Garrett. He loved machines and technology, and the markets that create and distribute them. He loved the car and its transforming effect on society. And he lived through it...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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The Social Crisis of Our Time

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08/28/1950 • Wilhelm Röpke

Wilhelm Ropke The Social Crisis of Our Time

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4.1. How Government Interference and the Impairment of the Profit Motive Drive Business Toward Bureaucratization

Tags: Political Theory, Media and Culture

05/02/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

A Time is Born

Tags: Booms and Busts, Media and Culture, U.S. History

01/30/1944 • Garet Garrett

During an interlude of twenty-one years between two global wars Heaven swung low and then high again. When it was very low, seeming almost to touch the hill tops, the human race prepared to celebrate the death of poverty. In the whole world...

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The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue

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06/15/1933 • Henry Hazlitt

When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken’s successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with...

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The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman

Tags: Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

06/15/1930 • Albert Jay Nock

The Book of Journeyman is a collection of Nock’s essays originally written for The New Freeman. It is quintessential Nock. For example, on “Lawyer’s Law” (pp. 9-10) he quips: The Russians are the best off of almost any people in the world in one...

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Harangue

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06/15/1927 • Garet Garrett

Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15, and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund...

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Satan’s Bushel

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09/19/1924 • Garet Garrett

This dazzling work in economic fiction is the third of Garet Garrett’s novel trilogy, written and first published in 1924. Like the others, Satan’s Bushel is a splendid book, not just from the point of view of economics but also as a piece of...

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The Freeman Book

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03/15/1924 • Albert Jay Nock

Yes, that’s right: The Freeman. This was the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It was radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of...

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