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  • Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters

    Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters5

    We want to think that the line between good and evil is clear and that individuals fall into one camp or another. In The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate

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  • Why Socialists Love the Phrase ‘It’s Not Real Socialism’

    Why Socialists Love the Phrase ‘It’s Not Real Socialism’0

    The main reason that the socialists have had the staying power that has, luckily, eluded the Nazis is the argument that these self-acclaimed socialist regimes were “not real socialism.” One influential intellectual responsible for popularizing this argument is philosopher Noam Chomsky, who postulates that socialist regimes, the USSR specifically, merely pretended to be socialist to

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  • Why Socialists Are More Materialistic Than Capitalists

    Why Socialists Are More Materialistic Than Capitalists0

    • November 7, 2017

    In his 1993 book The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the late Christian philosopher Michael Novak wrote that certain cultures are more likely to favor capitalism. Among them were the following: Confucian, Jewish, Protestant, and Northern European Catholic. These cultures, Novak argued, possessed certain commonalities that made them more likely to engage in

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  • Why Socialism Often Leads to Tyranny

    Why Socialism Often Leads to Tyranny0

    There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that communism leads to tyranny. Mention the countries North Korea, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Mao Tse Tung’s China, East Germany, and Venezuela, and most people immediately think of an oppressed population with almost no economic opportunity and no political freedom. The words communist dictatorship roll off the tongue like

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  • Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies

    Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies0

    Kristian Niemietz, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Institute for Economic Affairs, London 2019, 374 pages. What would you say to an amateur chef who baked a cake following a certain recipe only for everyone who ate a slice to fall ill quickly afterward? Being such an enthusiastic baker, they bake the same cake

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  • Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading

    Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading0

    In a year where scientists seemed to have gotten everything wrong, a book attempting to explain why is bizarrely relevant. Of course, science was in deep trouble long before the pandemic began and Stuart Ritchie’s excellent Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth had been long in the making.

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