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For reasons I don’t entirely understand, conservatives bitterly attacked the movie Reds when it came out in 1981. After all these years, the movie holds up as one of the most intellectually interesting and visually powerful portrayals of lost history that I’ve seen. The movie stars Warren Beatty playing John Reed, the great communist journalist

Bernie Madoff will spend the rest of his life in jail.   Bernie Madoff stole billions from the customers of his phony investment funds, running a racket rather than a financial service. People who aren’t even his victims are furious, and nearly everyone enjoyed a 10-minute sense of vengeance when the judge threw him behind bars for 150 years. Let

And then one day the stop sign was gone. It was the very stop sign one block from my house that was oddly stationed at a low-traffic, 3-way intersection, tempting every driver to slow down but not come to a complete stop. How the city cleaned up on that one! I have personally coughed up in excess of $1,000 for tickets there, one time receiving two

Somehow the movie Wall Street (1987) still holds up after all these years. Sure, the technology is dated — the cell phones are hilariously huge and the fat-back screens in offices display only green digits — but it hardly matters. The clothing by Alan Flusser is of course amazing and holds up too, but the real merit here runs deeper than

Not being an authentic geek (I just play one at the office), I still have a front-row seat to the exciting process of web development in real time. The most recent series of events was a wild ride from top to bottom, with seemingly endless learning along the way, something the user of Mises.org doesn’t see directly but which makes an enormous

The AMC’s Madmen , themed around New York advertising executives in the 1960s, captivates viewers for its plots, fashions, shocking levels of political incorrectness, and, most of all, because of the way its draws viewers so closely into a world of the early 1960s that they never knew. It seems like time travel, like all of this is really

[Excerpted from chapter 5 of Freedom, Property, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe .] Ludwig von Mises believed that the topic of polylogism was important enough to put up front in the introduction of Human Action : Marxism asserts that a man’s thinking is determined by his class affiliation. Every social class has a logic of its

It’s Labor Day, but there’s nothing to celebrate. On July 24 this year, the government raised the minimum wage to $7.25, which is another way of saying that unemployment is mandatory for anyone who is otherwise willing to work for less. You have no freedom to negotiate or lower the price for your service. You are either already valuable at this

Driving into work today, I saw garbage bins overflowing and city dumpsters spilling out with trash. It stinks. It’s disgusting. It’s uncivilized. It’s probably dangerous to some extent. It’s a holiday, so of course the government workers charged with picking up this nasty refuse can’t work, even though construction workers in private firms are

Film Noir is not riding any wave of popularity so it is the perfect time to anticipate a trend. These movies from the 1940s are not only brilliant and beautiful but also entertaining in their own right. They look completely different to us now from what they must have looked like then, and I don’t mean merely to inspire a sentimentalism for days