by Dan Mitchell | May 27, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
One advantage of being a child of the Cold War is that I got to live through the fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Evil Empire truly was one of Reagan’s most amazing accomplishments and a moment of joy for the world. Best of all, the war ended peacefully....
by Dan Mitchell | May 3, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
In a column for the New York Times, Jochen Bittner writes about how a rising star of Germany’s Social Democrat Party wants the type of socialism that made the former East Germany an economic failure. Socialism, the idea that workers’ needs are best met by the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 17, 2019 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Every Thanksgiving, I share the story of how the Pilgrims nearly starved to death because of their experiment with collectivized agriculture. Once the settlers shifted to a system based on private ownership, however, their problems disappeared. The obvious moral of...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve written about how totalitarian ideologies such as communism and Nazism have a lot in common. Both subordinate the individual to the state and both give the state power over the economy. And both slaughter millions of people. My buddy from grad school, Matt Kibbe,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2019 | Blogs, Health Care
There’s a long and sordid history of people in Western nations acting as dupes and apologists for communism. This is especially the case with the wretchedly impoverished totalitarian outpost 90 miles south of Florida. President Obama lauded aspects of Cuba’s...
