Opinion

It's hard not to feel a bit snubbed by Donald Trump if you're Colombian President Ivan Duque. Twice now, Trump has canceled official visits to the Andean coca giant, often correctly referred to as the "cocaine capital" of the world. Last…
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The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press, 1997) offers a conservative estimate of one hundred million innocent individuals murdered by Marxist socialists in the 20th century. To this, we can add the approximate twenty million…
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For the casual observer of Brazil, the fun-in-the-sun nation seems hardly a breeding ground for political authoritarianism or evangelical religious right conservatism. Now, however, the culture wars have come to Brazil. The biggest display…
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"One of the objectives for improving Brazil in the world's education rankings is to combat the Marxist garbage that was installed in educational institutions. Together with the Minister of Education and others involved, we will evolve in…
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Colombia, unlike virtually all of its South American counterparts, has never had a collapse of its central bank and currency. It has never faced hyperinflation. Other than a very brief period under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, it has…
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Of course, this is difficult to gauge when coming from a "glass is half empty" perspective, that focuses on current global trouble spots. But if we compare where we are today with respect to the place where we have come from as human…
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Universal basic income has had a phenomenal year in 2018 when it comes to publicity. Silicon valley billionaires, academics, and leftist politicians are raving about the brilliant new scheme, which we are told will prevent a Social…
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If we perform an honest analysis of the modern world, it becomes abundantly clear that there are three key variables that determine where human civilization has thrived...bringing with them peace, prosperity, stability, and human…
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On January 10, Nicolás Maduro's presidential term will end. The dictator was elected through fraudulent elections, plagued by problems, in 2013. The Chavista-dominated National Electoral Council ultimately reported that Maduro obtained a…
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The Spanish Civil War, that great interwar conflict that culminated in a series of bloody battles fought by proxy, has faded in historical memory. Most English-speakers who know something about it have gleaned their knowledge from George…
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The antithesis will not replace the thesis but rather, out of the two, a new synthesis will emerge that incorporates a great deal of the old. Hegel doubted that a complete break with the past was politically possible. This failure of a…
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Hillary Clinton displayed uncharacteristic prescience in a recent interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, in which she accurately diagnosed unchecked immigration as the catalyst that has led to an upsurge in populism and…
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