Clik here to view.
Returning to the Democratic Peace
[Here I have used China under Mao as the worst example of what a life can be like for a people lacking a democratic peace--fear, insecurity, mass poverty, totalitarianism, and mass murder by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Love, Fear, And Death In Mao’s China
I urge those of you who are interested in China and what it is like to live under absolute communist totalitarianism to read any one of the many Chinese memoirs now coming out. Their virtue is that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
State Socialism Exemplified — Burma
[First published July 11, 2005]While we focus on the repression of freedom in Sudan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, life can be even worse in some non-Muslim countries, such as Burma (Myanmar). The 42.7...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Commonplace Horror Of It All.
I find it more revealing to read the reports or biographies of escaped refugees and political dissidents from an evil dictatorship than what the country-experts write about it. This way I get a sense...
View Article
