Media and Culture

Henry Hazlitt cohosted the CBS series Longines Chronoscope from June 16, 1952. The series ran from 1951–55 and featured notable people of the time.

Anticapitalists often complain that people with more money exercise power over people with less money. Yet these same people seem oddly untroubled by the fact that central bankers can manipulate the money supply at any time to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense.

Bob Murphy explores the precise reasons for why (or why not) a long-running academic hoax reflects poorly on the targeted fields.

The rising generation is brought up in an environment that is engrossed in socialist ideas.

Bob Murphy deconstructs some contradictory progressive viewpoints.

Bob Murphy interviews Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road website.

Terrence Malick's new film about conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter is a subtle film. But perhaps too much so, and we need to look deeper to understand why this one man so vehemently resisted the Nazi state at the cost of his own life.

Bob Murphy and Tareq Haddad discuss how US authorities pressured the OPCW to change the report to fit their desired narrative, and how powerful groups control the corporate media.

The great libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz warned that health officials could use their "expertise" to push a political agenda. We're now living in that world.