by Dan Mitchell | Apr 2, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
Yesterday’s column looked at the continued government-caused decay of Venezuelan society. To put it mildly, it’s a very sad story of how pervasive statism can destroy a country. I also wondered whether leftists such as Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore, and Jeremy Corbyn...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I sometimes feel guilty when I mock communism. Should I really be joking about an ideology that directly or indirectly caused 100 million deaths? Are laughs appropriate when there is ongoing torture, abuse, and starvation in communist hellholes such as North...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
In recent months, I’ve written two very lengthy columns about the deterioration of Venezuela’s evil government. And I’ve also looked at long-run economic data to show how statism produces awful results for ordinary people. But I sometimes think anecdotes are the most...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 19, 2017 | Blogs
It’s time to continue our series on the 100th anniversary of Russia’s Bolshevik revolution, which unleashed a century of brutal, deadly, and oppressive communism. But at least it’s a series that sort of has a happy ending. The Soviet Union collapsed and China is...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2017 | Blogs, Economics
To “commemorate” the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in Russian, I’ve been sharing a series of columns on the evil of communism. On October 30, I looked at the death toll resulting from communist tyranny. On November 5, I discussed the shameful...
