Communism
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.
Sex and Communism
The times and trajectory of Max Eastman, progressive turned "libertarian conservative"
Destroy Capitalism to Save the Climate, Argues New York Times Op-Ed
Centrally planning the climate will work about as well as centrally planning economies did.
The Never Ending Battle of Ideas Between Capitalism and Socialism
The U.S. may have won the cold war, but the ideological struggle never ended.
The Insatiable Utopia
The Soviet elite who built a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and paid with their lives
Free Markets Make the World a Better Place
Economic growth, capitalism, improves standards of living, health, life expectancy.
Stossel: 100 Years of Communist Disaster
This year marks communism's 100th birthday. Its horrors should remind us of the value of freedom.
Humanizing the Struggle at the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York
Triumphal stories and a commitment to fight on for individual freedom worldwide.
Let's Lay Off the 1930s Reenactments
Eroding faith in free markets and civil liberties, populist politicians, political street fights. Sound familiar?
The New Red Scare
The current debate over the alt-right has begun to display some of the same hallmarks of red scares past.
Communism's Barbaric Cruelty By the Numbers
Communism's death toll overshadows other contemporary human cruelty.
Were Anti-War Libertarians Gullible for Believing Trump Would Take on the War Party?
Matt Welch talks with MilLiberty about foreign policy, post-communist Europe, collectivist antipathies, and the apocalyptic style within libertarianism
Life Under Communism Was No Liberation For Women
Nostalgic accounts of life under communism avoid the broader perspective of widespread oppression and economic failure.
Capitalism Should Be Our Weapon of Choice in Cuba
Embargoes don't work. Let capitalism and socialism duke it out.
100 Years After the Russian Revolution, Russians Are Still Paying
How much more developed would Russia be if it didn't suffer from nearly a century of communism?
Venezuela Reminds Us That Socialism Frequently Leads to Dictatorship
Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela is one place where Friedrich Hayek's most dire warnings remain relevant.
Making Idiosyncratic Art in a Totalitarian Society
Friday A/V Club: A cheerful little comedy about a man trying to dispose of a baby
Black Markets and Grassroots Disobedience are Transforming North Korea
A defector to the South thinks Kim Jong-un's days are numbered.
Justin Trudeau's Praise of Fidel Castro Gets 'Three Pinocchios'
Turns out you shouldn't trust dictatorships to provide reliable data on health care and education.
Donald Trump Seems Likely to Throw Cold Water on the Thaw in U.S.-Cuba Relations
Following Fidel Castro's death, Republicans want to revert to a policy that failed for half a century.
5 Terrible Responses to Fidel Castro's Death From World Leaders
Politicians and tyrants alike heap praise on the despot who ruled over an island prison nation.
Miami Marlins Pitcher Jose Fernandez, Survivor of Cuba's Castro Regime, Dies at 24
The father-to-be was one of three killed in a late-night boating accident.
Countries That Transitioned Rapidly From Communism to Capitalism Fare Better
Former Soviet bloc countries that transitioned slowly now lag behind.
On Frida Kahlo's Birthday, Check Out Her "Self-Portrait with Stalin"
This is a reminder that creative geniuses are often unbelievably stupid and useless when it comes to politics and morality.
"Let people do what they want with their own bodies and property": Q&A with Todd Seavey
'Libertarianism for Beginners' was born in seeing the Soviet Union collapse.
China's Other Cultural Revolution
Black markets, books, music, and sex in Mao's Middle Kingdom
Bernie Sanders Says Scott Walker's Ideology 'Kills People'
Sanders, who is a fan of communist regimes, accuses a center-right governor of being responsible for people dying because of his policy preferences.
Cuban Internet Censorship is a Good Thing, According to The Nation
Venerable progressive mag argues in favor of a repressive regime controlling access to information, because it beats "corporate control."
Obama in Cuba: "I Have Come to Bury the Last Remnant of the Cold War"
President tells Cuban people the US will not impose any system on them; calls on Castro to "not fear" democracy.
Friday A/V Club: The First Presidential Debate of the Broadcast Era
The central topic: Should the U.S. ban the Communist Party?
Bernie Sanders Supported Press Crackdowns, Bread Lines, and Castro's Cult of Personality
The democratic socialist has a history of defending very undemocratic socialism.
The U.S. Will Finally Lift the Ban on Direct Flights to Cuba
Another step in normalizing relations between the two countries.
Reds and Feds
What the FBI's war on the Maoist fringe tells us about the surveillance state
