If the Russian Revolution Never Happened, Who Was Karl Marx?
“What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Would anyone today even know who Karl Marx was?” ~ Phil Magness
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The Trouble with Politics in Pop Culture
“With massive audiences and considerable influence, these networks and productions are responsible for the misinformation they distribute.” ~ Blake Ball
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Bill and Ted Take Joan of Arc to Walmart
“What I think is most striking about Walmart – and what I would hope Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, Socrates, and others would notice – is that the floor-to-ceiling cornucopia is not restricted to the elites.” ~ Art Carden
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Bud Light’s Sales Implosion, Explained (by Mises)
“Instead of focusing on creating value and serving consumers, companies are forced to dance to the ESG piper’s tune and perform whatever social initiatives a tiny cabal of people regard as important.” ~ Jon Miltimore
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Dr. Seuss, Philosopher Extraordinaire
“It happens that, 75 years after Seuss wrote it, Thidwick turns out to be a good metaphor Western democracies.” ~ Bruce Rottman
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Why Intellectuals Hate Al Czervik
“Power, by which I mean political power, is always zero-sum: if the intellectual elite has it, you and I don’t have it.” ~ Michael Munger
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The FTC should answer its Call of Duty to Gamers
“There are so many holes in the FTC and Sony’s opposition to the Microsoft-Activision merger that an analogy to Swiss cheese is in order.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Economic Growth Makes Graceland Less Impressive
“The real ‘capitalist achievement,’ however, isn’t Graceland. It’s the fact that compared to the stuff of the average person’s day-to-day life in 2023, Graceland just isn’t that impressive.” ~ Art Carden
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Taylor Swift, Turn Your Wrath to Government!
“The entity that Taylor Swift and her legion of fans are turning to save themselves from a predatory monopoly that engages in shifty pricing is itself a predatory monopoly that engages in shifty pricing.” ~ Anthony Gill
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Stadium Subsidies Reveal Tensions in Democratic Priorities
“Despite being a well-known mirage, the promises of economic and job growth prove too attractive for local policymakers to resist. This tells us something about their priorities.” ~ Daniel J. Smith
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Legal Mafias and Moral Asymmetries
“Legal doesn’t mean right. It doesn’t mean just. It doesn’t mean moral. The powerful get away with misdeeds because, for too long, we have conflated the domains. And this conflation goes all the way down.” ~ Max Borders
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How the Media Became the Pentagon’s Plumbers
“A New York Times reporter’s deleted tweet reveals an uncomfortable truth about the gatekeepers of the Pentagon’s secrets today.” ~ Jon Miltimore
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