Media and Culture

The Great Gatsby is a testament to how the Jay Gatsbys of the world can reach the stars with the help of government prohibition.

Recorded 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Someone who uses Twitter under the handle @Numba1TSwiftFan and goes by TaylorSwiftForeva is a fan of both Taylor Swift and Austrian economics.

The first Transcontinental’s were all creatures, not of capitalism or the private markets, but of government.

The show has mercilessly satirized all forms of political correctness.

The careers of Mises, Rothbard, Hazlitt, and their disciples indicate that the attention to detail pays off.

History Channel's Pawn Stars is a capitalistic feast for the free market junkie.

Celebrating anniversaries for the Austrian School of economics. One hundred years ago, Ludwig von Mises began his career as an intellectual leader and creative genius with his groundbreaking The Theory of Money and Credit. Fifty years ago, Murray Rothbard took his own place in the ranks of creative geniuses, and inaugurated the modern Austrian movement with his great treatise Man, Economy, and State. And thirty years ago, Lew Rockwell, with the help of Margit von Mises, Murray Rothbard, F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Ron Paul, and heroic donors, created the first institution solely dedicated to Austrian economics, the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

One of the strangest commercial successes to rise from YouTube is the <i>Epic Rap Battles of History</i>.

The Big Pharma–FDA nexus is just one giant conflict of interest against the general public, writes Mark Thornton.