Topic: Art and Culture

Media Manipulators and their Foul Egregores

– June 17, 2023

“Media manipulation can be understood as an attempt to shape our collective sensemaking. The manipulators conjure their egregores to push a pliant public in a direction the manipulators desire.” ~ Max Borders

Art and Culture, Capitalism, Media

Cable News Likely to “Disappear” Within a Decade (and That’s OK)

– June 10, 2023

“Schumpeter saw there would be a natural impulse to ‘conserve obsolescent industries,’ but he rightly understood this was generally a futile and self-defeating task.” ~Jon Miltimore

Art and Culture, Authoritarianism, History, Video

If the Russian Revolution Never Happened, Who Was Karl Marx?

– June 9, 2023

“What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Would anyone today even know who Karl Marx was?” ~ Phillip W. Magness

Art and Culture, Education, Media

The Trouble with Politics in Pop Culture

– June 6, 2023

“With massive audiences and considerable influence, these networks and productions are responsible for the misinformation they distribute.” ~ Blake Ball

Art and Culture, Capitalism, Free Markets

Bill and Ted Take Joan of Arc to Walmart

– May 29, 2023

“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

Art and Culture, Media

Bud Light’s Sales Implosion, Explained (by Mises)

– May 27, 2023

“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

Art and Culture, Books, Classical Liberalism, Regulation

Dr. Seuss, Philosopher Extraordinaire

– May 27, 2023

“It happens that, 75 years after Seuss wrote it, Thidwick turns out to be a good metaphor Western democracies.” ~ Bruce Rottman

Art and Culture, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy

Why Intellectuals Hate Al Czervik

– May 23, 2023

“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

Art and Culture, Economic Trends, Free Markets

The FTC should answer its Call of Duty to Gamers

– May 22, 2023

“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

Art and Culture, Capitalism, Economic Growth, History

Economic Growth Makes Graceland Less Impressive

– May 21, 2023

“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

Art and Culture, Economic Trends, Regulation

Taylor Swift, Turn Your Wrath to Government!

– May 17, 2023

“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

Art and Culture, Free Markets, Government, Socialism

Stadium Subsidies Reveal Tensions in Democratic Priorities

– May 14, 2023

“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