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 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 | 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...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
When trying to convince someone about the downsides of socialism, I generally make a practical argument. I point out that socialism has universally failed, whether looking at totalitarian versions in places such as North Korea and Cuba or democratic versions in places...
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...
