Collectivism

For decades the social engineering economists have insisted that their cases for government intervention, regulation, and income redistribution were merely “pragmatic” proposals to overcome the inefficiencies and “failures” of the market economy.

America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological revivalism calling for a turn away from freedom and the open society.

Executive Editor Justin Haskins joined TrendChat with Brian Bledsoe at CPAC 2019 to discuss his new book Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream ($1.99 on Amazon) and the evils of socialism. 

November 7 marks a century since the founding of one of the most murderous tyrannies in human history.

The current counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society.

Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have been born in what is often still referred to as the Western Worldrarely appreciate the historical uniqueness of our material and related cultural well being.

Election years are depressing experiences for friends of freedom. The campaign stump, invariably, brings out even more of the worst in mainstream politicians who make their living by making promises they cannot keep through spending other people’s money. The 2016 presidential election cycle has only magnified this pattern.

[Read essay #1 here.] I attended Indiana University in the late 1960s. Like Columbia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and other major universities, IU was a cauldron of radical activities. Many grad students…