Communism Turns 100
Nothing to celebrate.
The Soviet elite who built a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and paid with their lives
Economic growth, capitalism, improves standards of living, health, life expectancy.
This year marks communism's 100th birthday. Its horrors should remind us of the value of freedom.
Triumphal stories and a commitment to fight on for individual freedom worldwide.
Eroding faith in free markets and civil liberties, populist politicians, political street fights. Sound familiar?
The current debate over the alt-right has begun to display some of the same hallmarks of red scares past.
Communism's death toll overshadows other contemporary human cruelty.
Matt Welch talks with MilLiberty about foreign policy, post-communist Europe, collectivist antipathies, and the apocalyptic style within libertarianism
Nostalgic accounts of life under communism avoid the broader perspective of widespread oppression and economic failure.
Embargoes don't work. Let capitalism and socialism duke it out.
How much more developed would Russia be if it didn't suffer from nearly a century of communism?
Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela is one place where Friedrich Hayek's most dire warnings remain relevant.
Friday A/V Club: A cheerful little comedy about a man trying to dispose of a baby
A defector to the South thinks Kim Jong-un's days are numbered.
Turns out you shouldn't trust dictatorships to provide reliable data on health care and education.
Following Fidel Castro's death, Republicans want to revert to a policy that failed for half a century.
Politicians and tyrants alike heap praise on the despot who ruled over an island prison nation.
The father-to-be was one of three killed in a late-night boating accident.
Former Soviet bloc countries that transitioned slowly now lag behind.
This is a reminder that creative geniuses are often unbelievably stupid and useless when it comes to politics and morality.
'Libertarianism for Beginners' was born in seeing the Soviet Union collapse.
Black markets, books, music, and sex in Mao's Middle Kingdom
Sanders, who is a fan of communist regimes, accuses a center-right governor of being responsible for people dying because of his policy preferences.
Venerable progressive mag argues in favor of a repressive regime controlling access to information, because it beats "corporate control."
President tells Cuban people the US will not impose any system on them; calls on Castro to "not fear" democracy.
The central topic: Should the U.S. ban the Communist Party?
The democratic socialist has a history of defending very undemocratic socialism.
Another step in normalizing relations between the two countries.
What the FBI's war on the Maoist fringe tells us about the surveillance state
The 1966 short Freiheit
Lawrence Dennis, Norman Thomas, A.J. Muste, and Raymond Moley debate the ideal social system.
Young people don't remember just how bad it was under socialism.
Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea. But will her story survive scrutiny?
Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
An aging Eastern European animator's protest against Stalinism
How creeping market forces are improving life in the Hermit Kingdom.
Willis Conover and that Cold War jazz