Directing a film is a little like coaching a football team—both are jobs for natural leaders of men—but strikingly few auteurs played serious team sports after age 18. Ron Shelton, director of the baseball movie Bull Durham, played five years of minor-league ball. Richard Linklater pitched in college until an injury switched his career trajectory […]

I confess (if I may use the word in this context) that I had little regard for the late pope. I took against him, as it were, early in his papacy when I saw his reaction to some Muslim outrage (or outrage committed by a Muslim), whose precise nature I now forget. The pope was […]

Keynesians claim that through the “multiplier,” a country can spend itself into prosperity. All that is needed is for government to tax, borrow, print money and spend, and prosperity will follow. Austrian Economists, however, are not fooled by such myths.

The non-aggression principle is often ridiculed as being abstract and unrealistic. However, it is possible to function in the real world living by this principle, something Murray Rothbard demonstrated using logic and clear thinking.

President Trump‘s threat to withhold $9 billion from Harvard University is being framed in the legacy media and academia as a threat to Harvard‘s academic freedom. But there is a pertinent question no pundits are even asking: Why are taxpayers being forced to give Harvard $9 billion?