Tag: socialism

The Eva Peron Myth: A Dior-Donning Socialist Who Made Argentina Cry

Commentary  Today marks the anniversary of Eva Peron’s death, a tragic event for those who don’t know her real story. Honored in the Broadway musical “Evita,” the popular Madonna song “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” from the movie “Evita,” and even a new Disney show, Evita is often celebrated as a champion of labor and…


Plutocratic Socialism and the Corruption of Democracy

This article is adapted from the book “Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class.” The American constitutional order assumes a populace of property owners, a middle class whose virtues provide the necessary ballast to support our republic. Our founders imagined strong communities, strong families, and independent citizens capable…


Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism Targets Russia

Commentary In January 1956, the iconoclastic leftist American poet Allen Ginsberg wrote “America,” a prose poem that laments the state of the country and the poet’s place in it. “America” was included in the short poetry collection entitled “Howl,” published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Publishers in November of the same year. In 1957, “Howl” became a cause célèbre as…


Yes, They Were Socialists: How the Nazis Waged War on Private Property

Commentary  When the average person thinks of the Nazis, what often comes to mind is World War II, the Holocaust, and rousing speeches of hate. However, the National Socialists also had economic and political policies, policies many just assume were either free market or New Deal-style public works projects like the Autobahn. But Nazi policy…


Inflation: Reagan and Trump Versus Carter and Biden

Commentary Americans suffering from rising prices and the highest inflation in 40 years need to demand the results Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump gave them. They need to reject the policy failures of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden. The difference in economic outcomes is not theory or an ideological or political position. The…


Arizona Makes Civics Education a High School Graduation Requirement

Arizona state Rep. Quang Nguyen learned about the sorrows of communism through the eyes of a child in South Vietnam. His final lesson came in 1975, when his family fled the country as communist North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon, signifying the end of liberty as he knew it. “I have had the unfortunate [perspective]…


Back to a Balanced Federal Budget

Commentary The Republican Study Committee has done a great service by developing a serious proposal for getting to a federal balanced budget within seven years. You can read it yourself here. RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma led the effort which…


Killing Jobs in the Name of Saving the Planet

During the State of the Union address to Congress this year, President Joe Biden delivered an astoundingly Orwellian endorsement of socialism, clothed as its anti-matter counterpart. “I’m a capitalist, but capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” the president declared. “It’s exploitation, and it drives up prices. When corporations don’t have to compete, their profits go up,…


Build Back Poorer, and Build Back Broke

Commentary President Joe Biden’s effort to “build back better” has degenerated into “build back poorer” for the American people and “build back broke” for the American government. With gasoline prices setting new record highs every week, the American people are becoming poorer. With the high cost of diesel fuel (up 70 percent over the last…


Goldman Sachs-Funded Socialist Forum Profits ‘Off the Same System They ‘Hate”: Cubans Who Fled Communism

A socialist group that got at least $12 million of funding from the investment banking company Goldman Sachs has come under sharp criticism for operating in NYC and calling for a socialist revolution in the United States, from people who fled communism and are warning Americans about the dangers of the radical doctrine. The executive director of…