Education

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Dallas-Fort Worth on 3 October 2015.

The Pope is touring North America this week, promoting a variety of interventionist “solutions” to global warming, poverty, and more. But a far more powerful religious figure, Janet Yellen, continues to pull the levers of the global financial system.

Eager to focus on what they're best at, college athletes often gravitate toward the easiest majors and classes. But that doesn't sit well with some college administrators who haven't made peace with the realities behind the division of labor.

Europe and America did not cause the plight of the underdeveloped nations, but they have prolonged its duration by implanting in their intellectuals the ideologies which are the most serious obstacle to any improvement of conditions. The socialists and interventionists of the West have poisoned the mind of the East. 

Includes comments and an introduction by Jeff Deist. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2015.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2015.

Strictly speaking, the phrase "check your privilege" could be an invitation to debate. But in practice, it is all too often an attempt to shut down debate and to make a personal attack on one's opponent in the name of "tolerance."

Congress and the First Lady teamed up to impose the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act on school children across the country, but news of unintended consequences abound.

Jeff Deist and Jim Ostrowski discuss how progressives managed to capture the 20th century.

Jeff Deist and Joe Salerno discuss the Austrian school, and Joe provides insight into the state of academia.