Ted Henken: How Social Media Fuels the Protests in Cuba
Demonstrators are making themselves heard via Facebook, Signal, and other platforms. Is that enough to overthrow an authoritarian regime?
Communism
Cubans Cry for 'Freedom'
Plus: Texas parolee prosecuted for voting, tales from the eviction moratorium, and more...
The 'One-Child' Policy Was Tyrannical in Theory and Brutally Oppressive in Practice
For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China’s reproductive restrictions..
Eldridge Cleaver: The Mormon Years
Friday A/V Club: A former Black Panther's winding path
The Fracturing of Communist Cuba's Propaganda Machine
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
Ted Cruz's Terrible Case for Keeping out Hong Kong Refugees
His rationale is both weak and would have justified keeping out his own father - a refugee from Cuba.
November 7 as Victims of Communism Day - 2020
While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.
A Simple Way for Biden to Begin to Mend Fences with Cuban-Americans - and Right an Injustice at the Same Time
Biden's underperformance among Cuban-American voters likely cost Democrats Florida. He can begin to heal the breach by reversing the Obama administration's cruel policy (continued by Trump) of barring most Cuban refugees.
Kamala Harris Says Equal Outcomes Should Be the Goal of Public Policy
"There’s a big difference between equality and equity."
Bitcoin and the End of History
The final installment in a four-part documentary series "Cypherpunks Write Code"
Disney's Mulan Is an Extravagant Mediocrity
The studio’s decision to thank repressive Chinese government authorities, meanwhile, makes it something far darker.
Reason TV Video on the Case for Letting Hong Kong Refugees Migrate to the United States
In the video, I also make the case for extending the same rights to other victims of Chinese government oppression.
Victims of Communism Day 2020
Why May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broader support.
The Outrage Over Rhode Island's State-Funded Coronavirus Art Is Overblown
The similarities between the image and totalitarian propaganda of old are unmistakable. But we all have bigger things to worry about right now.
This Rap-Based School Curriculum Is Teaching Kids That John Locke Was Cool Like Che Guevara
The Cuban revolutionary was not a big fan of life, liberty, and property.
Molly Jong-Fast on Trump's Impeachment, Democratic Candidates, and Why Twitter Is Great
"I don't think you should do Twitter if you think you're better than Twitter."
Socialism Killed My Father
Venezuela's failed collectivist experiment brought death and despair to a once-prosperous country.
Mick Mulvaney Wants a Federal Judge to Tell Him If He Has To Testify Before Congress
Plus: Bolivia's socialist president resigns, Germany marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Bernie Sanders criticizes mandatory gun buybacks
Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
A happy occasion - but also one with lessons that remain urgent today.
November 7 as Victims of Communism Day
While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, if it can attract a broader consensus.
Why the 70th Anniversary of the Establishment of the People's Republic of China Should be a Day of Mourning
The PRC committed the biggest mass murder in the history of the world, and numerous other atrocities and human rights violations, some of which go on at this very moment.
V.I. Lenin, Psychedelic Mushroom
Friday A/V Club: A prank from the final days of the Soviet Union
The 80th Anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Today is the anniversary of perhaps the most awful international agreement in all of world history.
Meet the New President of the Foundation for Economic Education, America's Oldest Free Market Think Tank
Raised in Lithuania during the final years of the Cold War, Zilvinas Silenas wants to bring libertarian ideas to young people in the 21st century.
The Unfulfilled Promise of Tiananmen Square
The heroism of the still-unidentified "Tank Man" helped destroy authoritarian rule in so many countries, but not his own.
Victims of Communism Day 2019
Why May 1 should be a day to honor the victims of the ideology that took more innocent lives than any other.
What If Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Had Been a Maoist Revolutionary Epic?
Friday A/V Club: Springtime for Mao
Bernie Sanders Wanted 'Public Ownership of the Major Means of Production' in 1976
There's a word for that….
No, Sex Wasn't Better for Women Under Socialism
It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara and Economist Gene Epstein Debate
Which economic system is most effective at bringing freedom to the masses?
Tom Woods Interviews Matt Welch About Journalism, Libertarianism, and War
Talking about everything from Central Europe to interventionism to Bill Weld on The Tom Woods Show
Google and Privatized Authoritarianism
The tech giant appears willing to do almost anything to win access to the vast Chinese market.
Sanctions Lead to Creative Condoms for a Communist Cuba
Condoms have become a multi-purpose tool in a country that does not have much access to resources.
Does Everything Trump Touches Really Die?
Matt Welch interviews Rick Wilson (and others) on Sirius XM Insight from 9-12 ET.
The Accidentally Libertarian Western
Friday A/V Club: Harpoon battles six-gun in Terror in a Texas Town.
House Committee on Un-American Activities
The Life and Death of a Hollywood Blacklist
Sometimes censorship is a public-private partnership.
Pantera Drummer Vinnie Paul is Dead. Don't Forget His Role in Ending the Cold War.
Pantera's 1991 Moscow show helped cement the demise of a dying empire.
Jake Tapper on The Hellfire Club, Donald Trump's Big Lies, and D.C.'s 'Bullshit Waterfall'
The CNN host and best-selling novelist comes clean about his politics, why Hillary Clinton lost, and how his training in alternative media gives him a leg up.
Victims of Communism Day 2018
May Day is a fitting time to commemorate the tens of millions of victims of this murderous ideology.
RIP Miloš Forman, a True Hollywood Anti-Authoritarian
From One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Black Peter, the Czech-born Oscar-winner championed eccentric individuals and artists over small-minded bureaucrats and a stifling state.
How To Think About The Americans' Final Season: Podcast
Exclusive Q&A with show creator Joe Weisberg and executive producer Joel Fields.
Stossel: China's Freedom-Crushing 'Social Credit Score'
Americans should be wary of something similar.
Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
The Death of Stalin Director Armando Iannucci on Free Minds Under Soviet Rule
Under Stalin, people could be killed for carrying joke books about him. They did it anyway.
