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“Uneducated” is the favorite insult and excuse of the political left. In the past year alone, for example, a lack of education among voters has been used to explain each of the left’s electoral failures, as well as to dismiss criticisms of its people, policies, and institutions. These defenses are dubious to say the least. Yet setting aside the

The Daily Mail reports that an 18-month publicity campaign to encourage women to join the Royal Marines has ended after managing to recruit just one candidate to its elite training program. The campaign was a follow-up to David Cameron’s decision  a year ago to lift the ban on women serving in close-combat roles. It’s unclear how much the campaign

Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow has passed away at the age of 95. There are few people who can lay claim to a more profound influence on 20 th -century economics. In fact, Arrow was the mainstream economist par excellence, contributing to many fields over the course of an almost seventy-year career. He will likely be remembered mainly though as a

The First World War carries a special significance in the history of Austrian economics. It not only symbolized the triumph of militarism and nationalism over the all-too-brief flourishing of liberalism, but also sowed the seeds of fascism, socialism, and the Second World War that ultimately forced the emigration of the Austrians from their native

In the controversy surrounding Trump’s immigration policy—particularly the practice of separating the children of immigrants from their parents—one claim is made repeatedly by his supporters: immigrants have no right to complain about the treatment they or their children receive, because they’ve broken the law. Surprisingly, this assertion is made

In just a few decades video gaming has grown from a niche market into one of the largest entertainment industries in the world, certainly no mean feat. However, its transformation has also brought with it the same regulatory problems that every large industry encounters sooner or later. And like most other industries, gaming’s regulatory woes are

The period July to November this year marks the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele. In a war already overflowing with misery, Passchendaele remains a byword for unspeakable suffering; it was one of the most appalling campaigns of the First World War, claiming almost half a million casualties and inflicting lifelong physical and psychological

Although libertarians and Austrian economists have been interested for a long time in the relationship between art and liberty, there’s been relatively little effort to develop a distinctly liberty- or market-oriented form of literary theory; critical theory is a playground for myriad “isms,” but libertarianism isn’t often counted among them.

The internet is filled with talk of the fourth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones . This is welcome news, as Game of Thrones probably offers economists more teachable moments than any show currently on the air (even House of Cards ). Fans are probably familiar with its economic themes and strongly critical view of government, which have attracted the

Who enriches himself while talking a Keynesian game?  Jeff Deist offers a hypothesis here .