When Gabriel Boric, head of the Left-wing Social Convergence party, became Chile’s new president on March 11 both his supporters and opponents knew he’d be a harbinger of change. Though after less than a month in office some of the actions that have transpired under the new administration have astonished people. On March 25, an…
Chile’s Socialist President Ignites Controversy Within Weeks of Taking Office
Egypt Is Still Haunted by Its Ghosts of Socialism
Commentary Egypt is considered a former socialist state and a country where the tentacles of Marxism can still be found, buried deep within almost every institution, something I have observed having lived there many decades. As I watch and listen to so-called leftists and socialist activists from Europe and North America preach about the need for wealth redistribution and…
University of Florida Strips Marx’s Name From Library Study Room
March 15, 2022
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The University of Florida has removed the name of “Communist Manifesto” author Karl Marx from a library study room after it gained media attention. According to a March 7 report by Campus Reform, the public university had one of its 14 group study rooms at the George A. Smathers Libraries named “Karl Marx Study Room.”…
Can We ‘Contain’ the Enemies of Liberty?
Commentary In post-World War II Western intellectual circles, many were intrigued with the ideological vision of “socialism,” but few understood the ruthless ambitions of communist dictators. One man who had first-hand knowledge about Joseph Stalin’s aggressive inclinations was an American Foreign Service officer, George F. Kennan. In 1946, writing as Mr. X, while he was…
‘Communism Is an Evil Religion,’ Says Trevor Loudon, as Socialism Seeks to Influence Religion and Society in America
March 8, 2022
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During the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) I spoke with Trevor Loudon, an expert on socialism and communism. His new film, “Enemies Within the Churches,” details the corruption communism has brought into Christianity. We discussed how the Chinese Communist Party seeks to subvert America and to bring down the moral fabric of this society….
Free Market Capitalism Is Under Siege—From Capitalists
Commentary We live in a strange world. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, helped provide the energy that powered the American century beginning in the early 1900s. Today, his grandchildren spend the billions of dollars that he donated to the Rockefeller Foundation to attack the same oil and gas industry that he almost…
Progressive, Socialist Policies Are Destructive, Have Never Brought Prosperity: Economist Robert Genetski
February 25, 2022
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After years of data accumulation and analysis, top U.S. economist Robert Genetski found that progressive or socialist policies are destructive and can only bring America away from prosperity. He also said the Biden administration’s economic policies are “absolutely” progressive or socialist. Genetski is “one of the nation’s premier interest rate forecasters,” according to the Heartland…
Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game
February 15, 2022
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Commentary In 2018, Ross Douthat of the New York Times introduced the phrase “woke capital.” Essentially, Douthat suggested that woke capitalism works by substituting symbolic value for economic value. Under woke capitalism, corporations offer workers rhetorical placebos in lieu of costlier economic concessions, such as higher wages and better benefits. The same gestures of wokeness also appease the…
Public Sector Unions to Gain Big From Record Whitmer Budget
February 11, 2022
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A half-dozen public and private sector union heads lined up on Feb. 9 to praise the announcement of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed $74 billion state budget. The last state budget before Whitmer, a Democrat, took office was in fiscal year 2018. It contained $57 billion in spending. Republican strategist Jamie Roe told The Epoch…
Climate Change: Gaslighting Americans Into Socialism, Part 1
Commentary Is the push by America’s elite to “save the planet from climate change” actually just gaslighting Americans into socialism? I recently discussed the clear connection between the Central Bank policies and rising wealth inequality. However, an article by Ken Rogoff suggests the real need is more “fiscal policy.” To wit: “But interest-rate adjustments are…
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