Many writers, artists and Hollywood filmmakers favoured communism.
capitalism
October 17, 2016
8:06AM
Jennifer Lawrence stars in one of the better presentations of entrepreneurship you’ll see on film.
September 29, 2016
9:10AM
Don't blame Smith or Friedman for the crimes and cronyism of others.
June 2, 2016
4:46PM
When there’s no competition for services such as welfare and unemployment insurance, there’s no market discipline forcing government bureaucracies to listen to its “customers.”
January 28, 2016
9:06AM
Native people and those struggling in poverty are done a great disservice by DiCaprio and others who trot out tired wrongheaded clichés about capitalism.
October 2, 2015
10:00AM
Naomi Klein’s anti-capitalist vision for the future may allow for only a few lucky high-flyers.
October 2, 2015
4:00AM
Some countries have high domestic levels of innovation but unequal outcomes while others have lower domestic levels of innovation but more egalitarian outcomes.
June 26, 2015
9:00AM
As pretty much everyone in the world knows by now, Pope Francis published an encyclical recently On Care for Our Common Home, which discusses all things environmental—climate change, of course, but also air pollution, water pollution, sustainable development, the precautionary principle…the list goes on through 184-pages.
February 7, 2015
10:00AM
In a recent column from a Toronto journalist on communism and capitalism, the writer made an astonishing claim: While “millions have been the tragic victims of communism,” he wrote, “that number pales, surely, in comparison with the victims of capitalism.”
December 21, 2013
2:00AM
Any time of year is a good time to discuss poverty but the subject has obvious resonance at Christmas. Thus, unsurprisingly, Pope Francis recently wrote about the necessity of compassion for those on the margins.
In Evangelii Gaudium, the Pontiff covers much ground. He urges deliberate, thoughtful action for the world's poor and warns against the folly of loving money and worshipping consumer goods. These are calls with which no thinking, compassionate person should disagree.