Communism

One of the issues that confronts the friends of freedom is how best to make the case for liberty as a political idea and ideal and as a policy proposal.

As the NBA continues to protect its business interests, the league’s biggest star, Lebron James, is on a crusade of his own.

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”

Many of my friends have long referred to environmentalists as “watermelons” — green on the outside, red on the inside.

The rebirth of a belief in and an enthusiasm for socialism and government planning among a noticeable number of people, and elected officials raises many of the fundamental issues surrounding freedom.

It is possible to have Socialism without Communism, but it’s a fine line with the latter denoting totalitarianism.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr and Jim Lakely in episode #195 of the In The Tank Podcast. Featured in today’s podcast is work from The Heartland Institute, the RAND Corporation, Reason Foundation, and the Brookings Institution.

If there is one common enemy that all opponents of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government seemingly can agree upon it is the “evil” of neo-liberalism.

Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.

While visiting Central Europe in November and December 2018 in conjunction with the United Nations climate conference in Katowice, Poland, I was quite struck by the drab and depressing architecture.

In the ancient world, there was often a philosophy of life that the events surrounding man and the world he lived in went in circles and cycles.

Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution to the General Assembly stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous and despicable that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any public reference to or discussion of Hitler or his henchmen

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.