by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 2016, I toured the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia, which memorializes the victims of communist butchery in that nation. Earlier today, I was lucky enough to get a tour through the House of Terror, a museum in Budapest that commemorates the horrors that...
by Dan Mitchell | May 14, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, I expressed disgust that the President of the European Commission was going to give a speech commemorating the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. To be blunt, Marx was a despicable person who developed an ideology that butchered 100 million people....
by Dan Mitchell | May 12, 2018 | Blogs
Why are there so few liberty-oriented societies compared to the number of places with statist governments? And why does it seem like the size and scope of government keeps expanding around the world? If I’m feeling optimistic, I’ll disagree with the tone of those...
by Dan Mitchell | May 1, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I’m currently in Zürich, Switzerland, where most shops are closed because “May Day” is an official holiday (thanks to Swiss federalism, the 26 cantons make such decisions rather than the central government). As a fan of warm weather, I certainly don’t object to a...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 28, 2018 | Blogs, Europe
The evil ideology known as communism left a track record of unimaginable horror. Experts estimate that 100 million people were killed by Marxist regimes. Some were murdered. Others starved to death because of the pervasive economic failure of communism. Yet there...
