Media and Culture

Zombie narratives are one of the trends toward global or cosmic catastrophes that show government as the salvation and redeemer.

The viewing public still responds to films and television shows that champion freedom.

Orwell’s future is run by a Party whose job is the total exercise of Power, and it goes about its job with diabolic efficiency and ingenuity.

How can The Art of War help you think like an economist? Because resources are scarce we have to put the goods we do have to the best use. Sun Tzu understood that war is destruction and resources must be preserved. The only good war is one won without fighting.

Interviewed by host Barb Adams, Mark Thornton talks about ‘The Great Gatsby’, the economics of prohibition, gun control, and more.

David Gordon gives a review of John R Lott's At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?.

The Greyjoy words, “We Do Not Sow,” are a very apt description of the state, which is a fundamentally parasitic institution.

 If historical cases of hyperinflation — real, and virtual — have one thing in common, it is the instinct among its victims to blame the symptoms rather than the disease.

The Journal of Prices & Markets, published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, is a journal