Introduction
1. Brian Barrett, “DJI’s M600 Drone Is Not for You. Don’t Even Look at It,” Wired, April 19, 2016, https://www.wired.com/2016/04/dji-m600-drone/.
2. Ulrike Franke, “The Caracas Drone Attack Won’t Be the Last of Its Kind,” Verge, August 17, 2018, https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17703570/caracas-drone-attack-venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro.
3. Joe Parkin Daniels, “Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro Survives Apparent Assassination Attempt,” Guardian, August 4, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/04/nicolas-maduros-speech-cut-short-while-soldiers-scatter.
4. Alexandra Ulmer and Daniel Wallis, “Maduro Says Foes Used Explosive Drones to Try to Kill Him,” Reuters, August 4, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-maduro/blast-scattering-soldiers-makes-venezuelas-maduro-look-vulnerable-analysts-idUSKBN1KQ0KL.
5. Megan Janetsky, “Fleeing Venezuela, Migrants Flood Colombia Amid Region’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Decades,” USA Today, November 20, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/18/Venezuela.
6. Nicholas Casey, “Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals,” New York Times, May 16, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/world/americas/dying-infants-and-no-medicine-inside-venezuelas-failing-hospitals.html.
7. Dominique Mosbergen, “Trump Knocks Socialism and Bernie Sanders Does Not Look Pleased,” HuffPost, February 5, 2019, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-bernie-sanders-socialism-state-of-the-union_us_5c5a5d49e4b00187b5562046.
8. Jordan Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About,” Pitt News, September 6, 2016, https://pittnews.com/article/110288/opinions/columns/self-identified-socialists-dont-know-theyre-talking/.
9. Geoff Dembicki, “Socialism Is Incredibly Popular but Does Anyone Know What ‘Socialism’ Is?,” Vice, October 4, 2018, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3p4y8/what-actual-socialists-think-about-socialism.
10. Joseph Blasi and Douglas L. Kruse, “Today’s Youth Reject Capitalism, but What Do They Want to Replace It?,” CNBC, April 8, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/08/todays-youth-reject-capitalism-but-what-do-they-want-to-replace-it.html.
11. Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, “Does the Impressive Historical Decline in Poverty Capture Non-Market Transactions?,” Our World in Data, January 23, 2017, https://ourworldindata.org/poverty-home-production-and-consumption.
12. Max Roser, “Child Mortality,” Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality.
13. Frank Newport, “Americans’ Views of Socialism, Capitalism Are Little Changed,” Gallup, May 6, 2016, https://news.gallup.com/poll/191354/americans-views-socialism-capitalism-little-changed.aspx.
14. Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About.”
15. Dan Ferber, “How Children Outgrow Socialism,” Science Magazine, May 27, 2010, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/05/how-children-outgrow-socialism.
Chapter 1: Socialism Destroyed Venezuela’s Once-Vibrant Economy
1. José Niño, “Venezuela Before Chavez: A Prelude to Socialist Failure,” Mises Institute, May 14, 2017, https://mises.org/wire/venezuela-chavez-prelude-socialist-failure.
2. Ibid.
3. Federico Fernández, “The Economist Promoting Austrian Economics in Venezuela,” Mises Institute, November 20, 2018, https://mises.org/wire/economist-promoting-austrian-economics-venezuela.
4. John Stossel, “Chomsky’s Venezuela Lesson,” Creators, May 31, 2017, https://www.creators.com/read/john-stossel/05/17/chomskys-venezuela-lesson.
5. Fernández, “The Economist Promoting Austrian Economics in Venezuela.”
6. Niño, “Venezuela Before Chavez.”
7. Ibid.
8. Ian Simpson, “Pennsylvania Professor Under Fire for ‘White Genocide’ Tweet,” Reuters, December 26, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pennsylvania-professor-idUSKBN14F154.
9. John Phelan, “The Three Phases of Socialism,” Foundation for Economic Education, May 8, 2019, https://fee.org/articles/the-three-phases-of-socialism/.
10. “From Riches to Rags,” Al Jazeera, February 14, 2018, https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-big-picture/2018/02/riches-rags-venezuela-economic-crisis-180211123942491.html.
11. Kevin Voigt, “Chavez Leaves Venezuelan Economy More Equal, Less Stable,” CNN, March 6, 2013, https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/business/venezuela-chavez-oil-economy/index.html.
12. Ibid.
13. “From Riches to Rags,” Al Jazeera, February 14, 2018, https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-big-picture/2018/02/riches-rags-venezuela-economic-crisis-180211123942491.html.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Benjamin Kentish, “Venezuelans Lose Average of 19lb in Weight Due to Nationwide Food Shortages, Study Suggests,” Independent, February 23, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-weight-loss-average-19lb-pounds-food-shortages-economic-crisis-a7595081.html.
18. Peter Wilson, “Venezuela Food Shortages Cause Some to Hunt Dogs, Cats, Pigeons,” USA Today, May 18, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/18/venezuela-food-shortages-cause-some-hunt-dogs-cats-pigeons/84547888/.
19. Kentish, “Venezuelans Lose Average of 19lb.”
20. Caracas Chronicles Team, “A Staggering Hunger Crisis, in Cold, Hard Numbers,” Caracas Chronicles, February 21, 2018, https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018/02/21/encovi-2017/.
Chapter 2: Socialism Rewards Corruption
1. Cory Franklin, “The Deafening Silence of Hollywood’s Chavistas,” Washington Examiner, May 1, 2017, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-deafening-silence-of-hollywoods-chavistas.
2. John Stossel and Maxim Lott, “Stossel: Socialism Fails Every Time,” Reason, October 1, 2018, https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/10/09/stossel-socialism-fails-every-time.
3. Keith Flamer, “10 Surprises About Fidel Castro’s Extravagant Life,” Forbes, November 26, 2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surprises-about-castros-extravagant-life/#1c6188ed6d76.
4. Carlos Frías, “First He Praised Castro. Now ‘Salt Bae’ Chef Lavishes Venezuela’s Maduro with Steak Dinner,” Miami Herald, September 17, 2018, https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/article218581025.html.
5. Eliza Mackintosh and Natalie Gallón, “Maduro Dines on Pricey ‘Salt Bae’ Steaks as Venezuelans Starve,” CNN, September 19, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/world/venezuela-maduro-salt-bae-steak-intl/index.html.
6. Scott Smith, “Venezuela President Ties Opposition Leader to Drone Attack,” AP News, August 7, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/840713b2848142d3982666c13b487bcf.
7. Glenn Reynolds, “Glenn Reynolds: Don’t Be a Sucker for Socialism,” USA Today, May 16, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/16/socialism-venezuela-ussr-cuba-sanders-clinton-elections-2016-column/32613393/.
8. Gerard Di Trolio, “Socialist in Name Only,” Jacobin, December 28, 2014, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/socialist-international-capitalism.
9. Susanna Kim, “Egypt’s Mubarak Likely to Retain Vast Wealth,” ABC News, February 2, 2011, https://abcnews.go.com/Business/egypt-mubarak-family-accumulated-wealth-days-military/story?id=12821073.
10. Ian Birrell, “The Strange and Evil World of Equatorial Guinea,” Guardian, October 22, 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/23/equatorial-guinea-africa-corruption-kleptocracy.
11. “Equatorial Guinea’s VP Obiang’s Cars Seized in Switzerland,” BBC, November 3, 2016, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37861795.
12. Birrell, “The Strange and Evil World of Equatorial Guinea.”
Chapter 3: Interfering With Free Markets Causes Shortages
1. José Niño, “Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela, and Everywhere Else,” Mises Institute, August 16, 2016, https://mises.org/wire/price-controls-are-disastrous-venezuela-and-everywhere-else.
2. Hugh Rockoff, “Price Controls,” Library of Economics and Liberty, https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PriceControls.html.
3. Niño, “Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela, and Everywhere Else.”
4. Tibisay Romero and Corina Pons, “With Venezuelan Hyperinflation, Multinationals Buck Price Controls,” Reuters, March 8, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-companies/with-venezuelan-hyperinflation-multinationals-buck-price-controls-idUSKCN1GK0IV.
5. Niño, “Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela, and Everywhere Else.”
6. George Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian,” Mises Institute, November 11, 2005, https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian.
7. Ibid.
8. Gene Healy, “Remembering Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls,” Washington Examiner, August 15, 2011, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/remembering-nixons-wage-and-price-controls.
9. Ibid.
10. Slavoj Zizek, “The Problem with Venezuela’s Revolution Is That It Didn’t Go Far Enough,” Independent, August 9, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/venezuela-socialism-communism-left-didnt-go-far-enough-a7884021.html.
11. Girish Gupta, “Price Controls and Scarcity Force Venezuelans to Turn to the Black Market for Milk and Toilet Paper,” Guardian, April 16, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/apr/16/venezuela-economy-black-market-milk-and-toilet-paper.
12. Stephen Gibbs, “Venezuela’s Maduro Imposes Food Price Controls,” Times, May 29, 2018, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/maduro-blames-crisis-on-capitalism-5dkh0td3t.
13. David Brennan, “Venezuela Army Sent to Enforce Food Prices as Currency Crashes,” Newsweek, June 21, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-army-sent-enforce-food-prices-currency-crashes-989556.
14. John Stossel and Maxim Lott, “Stossel: Socialism Fails Every Time,” Reason, October 1, 2018, https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/10/09/stossel-socialism-fails-every-time.
15. Marian Tupy, “Venezuelan Price Controls Lead to Predictable Shortages,” Reason, September 19, 2017, https://reason.com/archives/2017/09/19/venezuelan-price-controls-lead-to-predic.
Chapter 4: Capitalism is the More Moral System
1. David Harsanyi, “What Thomas Piketty’s Popularity Tells Us About the Liberal Press,” Federalist, April 23, 2014, http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/23/pundits-of-the-world-unite-what-thomas-pikettys-popularity-tells-us-about-the-liberal-press/.
2. Daniel Shuchman, “Thomas Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century,” Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-by-thomas-piketty-1398118166.
3. Ben Domenech, “Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter,” Federalist, April 23, 2014, https://thefederalist.com/2014/04/23/why-inequality-doesnt-matter/.
4. Shuchman, “Thomas Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century.”
5. Ibid.
6. Sam Bowman, “Inequality Doesn’t Matter: A Primer,” Adam Smith Institute, January 11, 2017, https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/inequality-doesnt-matter-a-primer.
7. Alexander C. R. Hammond, “The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster,” HumanProgress, October 27, 2017, https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=770.
8. Bowman, “Inequality Doesn’t Matter: A Primer.”
9. Tim Worstall, “Using Homer Simpson to Explain Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter,” Forbes, August 26, 2014, https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/08/26/using-homer-simpson-to-explain-why-inequality-doesnt-matter/#1eda0594407c.
10. Ibid.
11. Dalibor Rohac, “Income Inequality Doesn’t Matter,” Washington Times, May 13, 2011, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/13/income-inequality-doesnt-matter/.
12. Deirdre McCloskey quoted by Worstall, “Using Homer Simpson to Explain Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter.”
Chapter 5: Capitalism Benefits the Middle Class
1. McCloskey, in Worstall, “Using Homer Simpson to Explain Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter.”
2. Donald J. Boudreaux, “No Time Like the Present,” Mercatus Center, September 14, 2013, https://www.mercatus.org/expert_commentary/no-time-present.
3. Christina Zhao, “NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says ‘Capitalism Is Irredeemable,’” Newsweek, March 10, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-capitalism-irredeemable-1357720.
4. Tupy, “Venezuelan Price Controls Lead to Predictable Shortages.”
5. Glenn Kessler, “Ocasio-Cortez’s Misfired Facts on Living Wage and Minimum Wage,” Washington Post, January 24, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/24/ocasio-cortezs-misfired-facts-living-wage-minimum-wage/?utm_term=.3d81e322f48a.
6. Glenn Kessler, “Rand Paul’s Suggestion He Looks to Eisenhower for ‘Inspiration and Guidance,’” Washington Post, July 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/rand-pauls-suggestion-he-looks-to-eisenhower-for-inspiration-and-guidance/2013/07/23/47757076-f3ca-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_blog.html?utm_term=.dd76db3e75bd.
7. David Harsanyi, “Millennials Are the Most Prosperous Generation That’s Ever Lived,” Federalist, March 22, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/22/stop-whining-millennials-youre-prosperous-generation-thats-ever-lived/#.XOAY_M7MouB.twitter.
8. Phil Gramm and John Early, “The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation,’” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-wage-stagnation-11558126174.
9. Harsanyi, “Millennials Are the Most Prosperous Generation That’s Ever Lived.”
10. Jim Geraghty, “Millennials Are Experiencing American Prosperity,” National Review, March 22, 2019, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/millennials-are-experiencing-american-prosperity/.
11. Scott Lincicome, “People our age have never experienced,” Twitter, March 21, 2019, https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1108858010250678272.
12. Harsanyi, “Millennials Are the Most Prosperous Generation That’s Ever Lived.”
13. Derek Thompson, “How America Spends Money: 100 Years in the Life of the Family Budget,” Atlantic, April 5, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-america-spends-money-100-years-in-the-life-of-the-family-budget/255475/.
14. Ben Domenech, “Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter,” Federalist, April 23, 2014, https://thefederalist.com/2014/04/23/why-inequality-doesnt-matter/.
15. Ibid.
16. Mark J. Perry, “Some Amazing Findings on Income Mobility in the US,” American Enterprise Institute, November 16, 2017, http://www.aei.org/publication/some-amazing-findings-on-income-mobility-in-the-us-including-this-the-image-of-a-static-1-and-99-percent-is-false/.
17. Ibid.
Chapter 6: Income Inequality Does Not Ruin the Economy or Corrupt Government
1. Joseph Stiglitz, “Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery,” New York Times, January 19, 2013, https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/inequality-is-holding-back-the-recovery/?emc=eta1&pagewanted=print&mtrref=undefined&gwh=5DAE51CCD6C1787BC30B65C764F808D0&gwt=pay.
2. Dan Andrews, Christopher Jencks, and Andrew Leigh, “Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?,” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 11, no. 1, Article 6 (2011), http://andrewleigh.org/pdf/TopIncomesGrowth.pdf.
3. Alan Reynolds, “Piketty Problems: Top 1% Shares of Income and Wealth Are Nothing Like 1917–28,” Cato Institute, May 20, 2014, https://www.cato.org/blog/piketty-problems-top-1-shares-income-wealth-are-nothing-1917-28.
4. Scott Winship, “Overstating the Costs of Inequality,” National Affairs, Spring 2013, https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/overstating-the-costs-of-inequality.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
Chapter 7: Under Capitalism, the 1 Percent is Always Changing
1. Gregg Re, “Bernie Sanders, at Combative Fox News Town Hall, Makes No Apologies for Making Millions,” Fox News, April 15, 2019.
2. John Phelan, “Bernie Is a Capitalist, Whether He Likes It or Not,” Foundation for Economic Freedom, April 19, 2019, https://fee.org/articles/bernie-is-a-capitalist-whether-he-likes-it-or-not/.
3. Perry, “Some Amazing Findings on Income Mobility in the US.”
4. Robert Carroll, “Special Report: Income Mobility and the Persistence of Millionaires, 1999 to 2007,” Tax Foundation, June 2010, https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/sr180.pdf.
5. Andrew Syrios, “A Closer Look at Income Inequality,” Mises Institute, March 31, 2014, https://mises.org/library/closer-look-income-inequality.
6. Domenech, “Why Inequality Doesn’t Matter.”
Chapter 8: The Poor are Better Off Under Capitalism
1. Selwyn Duke, “The Equality Con: Why Income Gaps Don’t Matter,” Observer, February 1, 2017, https://observer.com/2017/02/npr-oxfam-report-eight-richest-men/.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Thomas Sowell, “Socialism for the Uninformed,” Indianapolis Business Journal 37, no. 16, 15B, https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/05/16/socialism-for-the-uninformed.
5. Duke, “The Equality Con.”
6. Dalibor Rohac, “Income Inequality Doesn’t Matter,” Washington Times, May 13, 2011, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/13/income-inequality-doesnt-matter/.
7. Winston Churchill, “Speech in the House of Commons,” UK Parliament, October 22, 1945, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1945/oct/22/demobilisation#S5CV0414P0_19451022_HOC_300.
8. Ibid.
9. Harry Frankfurt, “Inequality Isn’t Immoral,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2015, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1011-frankfurt-inequality-morality-20151011-story.html.
10. Steven Pinker, “Why Income Inequality Is Not the Injustice We Perceive It to Be,” Big Think, February 13, 2018, https://bigthink.com/big-think-books/steven-pinker-enlightenment-now-inequality-happiness.
11. Rea Hederman and David Azerrad, “Defending the Dream: Why Income Inequality Doesn’t Threaten Opportunity,” Heritage Foundation, September 13, 2012, https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/defending-the-dream-why-income-inequality-doesnt-threaten-opportunity.
12. Ludwig von Mises, “The Inequality of Wealth and Income,” Mises Institute, March 23, 2016, https://mises.org/wire/mises-inequality-wealth-and-income.
13. Ed Fuelner, “Socialism, the True Gospel of Greed,” Washington Times, June 10, 2019, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/10/socialism-is-the-opposite-of-freedom/.
14. Stuart Dredge, “Facebook Closes Its $2bn Oculus Rift Acquisition. What Next?” Guardian, July 22, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/facebook-oculus-rift-acquisition-virtual-reality.
15. The Daily Dish, “Quote for the Day,” Atlantic, August 12, 2008, https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/quote-for-the-day/213088/.
16. Duke, “The Equality Con.”
Chapter 9: Bernie’s Socialism also Includes Praise for Dictators
1. Jonathan Swan, “Sanders Defends Past Praise of Fidel Castro,” Hill, March 9, 2016, https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/272485-sanders-defends-past-praise-of-fidel-castro.
2. David Unsworth, “Bernie Sanders’ Longtime Hypocritical Infatuation with Nicaraguan Communism,” Panam Post, May 3, 2018, https://panampost.com/david-unsworth/2018/05/03/bernie-sanders-longtime-hypocritical-infatuation-with-nicaraguan-communism/.
3. Ibid.
4. Michael Moynihan, “When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson,” Daily Beast, February 28, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.
5. Ibid.
6. Stephen Kinzer, “Socialist? Yes, Says Sandinista Chief,” New York Times, July 20, 1988, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/20/world/socialist-yes-says-sandinista-chief.html.
7. Moynihan, “When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson.”
8. Ibid.
9. Michele Ver Ploeg and Ilya Rahkovsky, “Recent Evidence on the Effects of Food Store Access on Food Choice and Diet Quality,” United States Department of Agriculture, May 2, 2016, https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2016/may/recent-evidence-on-the-effects-of-food-store-access-on-food-choice-and-diet-quality/.
10. Moynihan, “When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson.”
11. Jesse M. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate,” Orlando Sentinel, October 25, 2018, https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-op-us-democratic-socialists-dont-get-scandinavia-20181025-story.html.
12. Ibid.
13. Moynihan, “When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson.”
Chapter 10: Today’s American Socialists Don’t Know What Socialism Means
1. Geoff Dembicki, “Socialism Is Incredibly Popular but Does Anyone Know What ‘Socialism’ Is?,” Vice, October 4, 2018, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3p4y8/what-actual-socialists-think-about-socialism.
2. Charles Krupa, “What Would a Socialist America Look Like?,” Politico, September 3, 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/03/what-would-a-socialist-america-look-like-219626.
3. Dembicki, “Socialism Is Incredibly Popular but Does Anyone Know What ‘Socialism’ Is?”
4. Lukas Mikelionis, “Socialist Demo Ocasio-Cortez Laments Coffee Shop’s Closure—Over Wage Hikes That She Supports,” Fox News, August 22, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialist-dem-ocasio-cortez-laments-coffee-shops-closure-over-wage-hikes-that-she-supports.
5. Jeffrey Dorfman, “Sorry Bernie Bros but Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist,” Forbes, July 8, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry-bernie-bros-but-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist/#111e274274ad; Corey Iacono, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism,” Foundation for Economic Education, February 25, 2016, https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism/, https://www.austriancenter.com/shattering-myth-nordic-socialism/; Kai Weiss, “Shattering the Myth of Nordic Socialism,” Svensk Tidskrift, June 8, 2018, http://www.svensktidskrift.se/shattering-the-myth-of-nordic-socialism/; Chris Moody, “Bernie Sanders’ American Dream Is in Denmark,” CNN, February 17, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/politics/bernie-sanders-2016-denmark-democratic-socialism/index.html.
6. Dembicki, “Socialism Is Incredibly Popular but Does Anyone Know What ‘Socialism’ Is?”
7. Ibid.
8. “What Is Democratic Socialism?,” Democratic Socialists of America, https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/.
9. “Socialism in America,” Economist, August 30, 2018, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/08/30/socialism-in-america.
10. Dembicki, “Socialism Is Incredibly Popular but Does Anyone Know What ‘Socialism’ Is?”
11. “Socialism in America,” Economist, August 30, 2018, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/08/30/socialism-in-america.
12. Dembicki, “Socialism Is Incredibly Popular but Does Anyone Know What ‘Socialism’ Is?”
13. Jack Staples-Butler, “The Falsity of the Sanders Venezuela Meme,” Quillette, March 10, 2018, https://quillette.com/2018/03/10/sanders-venezuela-meme/.
14. Ibid.
15. George Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian,” Mises Institute, November 11, 2005, https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian.
Chapter 11: Bernie Sanders Is Too Liberal to Get Elected in Denmark
1. Nima Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left,” The Stream, September 6, 2016, https://stream.org/5-myths-nordic-socialism-mislead-the-american-left/.
2. Moody, “Bernie Sanders’ American Dream Is in Denmark.”
3. “Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate,” New York Times, February 5, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/transcript-of-the-democratic-presidential-debate.html.
4. Valerie Richardson, “Corporate Taxes Would ‘Absolutely’ Go Back Up if Democrats Win Senate in 2018,” Washington Times, December 17, 2017, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/17/sen-bernie-sanders-corporate-taxes-would-absolutel/.
5. Moody, “Bernie Sanders’ American Dream Is in Denmark.”
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
Chapter 12: No, Bernie, Scandinavia is not Socialist
1. Murray N. Rothbard, “The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited,” Mises Institute, December 8, 2006, https://mises.org/library/end-socialism-and-calculation-debate-revisited.
2. Giancarlo Sopo, “Debunking Socialist Myths: 90 Percent of Scandinavia’s Wealth Is Privately Owned,” Federalist, August 17, 2018, http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/17/debunking-socialist-myths-90-percent-scandinavias-wealth-privately-owned/.
3. Corey Iacono, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism,” Foundation for Economic Education, February 25, 2016, https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism/; Weiss, “Shattering the Myth of Nordic Socialism.”
4. John Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?,” New American, August 10, 2016, https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/23805-scandinavia-successful-socialism.
5. Sopo, “Debunking Socialist Myths,” The Federalist, August 17, 2018.
6. Tyler Cowen, “Denmark’s Nice, Yes, but Danes Live Better in U.S.,” Mercatus Center, August 16, 2016, https://www.mercatus.org/expert_commentary/denmarks-nice-yes-danes-live-better-us; Tyler Cowen, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism,” Las Vegas Review Journal, August 20, 2016, https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism/.
7. Jesse M. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate,” Orlando Sentinel, October 25, 2018, https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-op-us-democratic-socialists-dont-get-scandinavia-20181025-story.html.
8. Jordan Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About,” Pitt News, September 6, 2016, https://pittnews.com/article/110288/opinions/columns/self-identified-socialists-dont-know-theyre-talking/.
9. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate.”
Chapter 13: Sweden’s Riches Actually Came from Capitalism
1. Dorfman, “Sorry Bernie Bros but Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist.”
2. Ibid.
3. Matt Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?,” The Dan Bongino Show, July 10, 2018, https://bongino.com/does-socialism-work-in-scandinavia-part-1/.
4. Dorfman, “Sorry Bernie Bros but Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist.”
5. Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?”
6. Rich Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All,” New York Post, October 19, 2015, https://nypost.com/2015/10/19/sorry-bernie-scandinavia-is-no-socialist-paradise-after-all/.
7. Weiss, “Shattering the Myth of Nordic Socialism”; Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About.”
8. Iacono, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism.”
9. Dorfman, “Sorry Bernie Bros but Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist.”
10. Chris Matthews, “What the Left Gets Wrong About Scandinavia,” Fortune, January 26, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/01/26/democrat-bernie-sanders-scandinavia-socialism/.
11. Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?”
12. Catherine Boyle, “Clinton and Sanders: Why the Big Deal About Denmark?,” CNBC, October 14, 2015, https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/14/clinton-and-sanders-why-the-big-deal-about-denmark.html.
13. Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?”
14. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate.”
15. Daniel Lacalle, “Face It, Nordic Counties Aren’t Socialist,” Mises Institute, June 8, 2018, https://mises.org/wire/face-it-nordic-countries-arent-socialist.
16. Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Lee E. Ohanian, “How Sweden Overcame Socialism,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sweden-overcame-socialism-11547078767?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1.
17. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate.”
18. Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About.”
19. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
20. Jeff Jacoby, “No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia Is Not a Socialist Utopia,” Boston Globe, October 15, 2016, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/10/15/bernie-sanders-scandinavia-not-socialist-utopia/lUk9N7dZotJRbvn8PosoIN/story.html.
21. Rich Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All,” New York Post, October 19, 2015, https://nypost.com/2015/10/19/sorry-bernie-scandinavia-is-no-socialist-paradise-after-all/.
22. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
23. Stefan Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth,” Mises Institute, August 7, 2006, https://mises.org/library/sweden-myth.
24. Ibid.
25. John Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?,” New American, August 10, 2016, https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/23805-scandinavia-successful-socialism.
26. Ibid.
27. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”
28. Ibid.
29. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
30. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”
31. Ibid.
Chapter 14: The Nordic Model is Welfarism, Not Socialism
1. Corey Iacono, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism,” Foundation for Economic Education, February 25, 2016, https://fee.org/articles/The-Myth-Of-Scandinavian-Socialism/; Kai Weiss, “Shattering the Myth of Nordic Socialism,” Svensk Tidskrift, June 8, 2018, http://www.svensktidskrift.se/Shattering-The-Myth-Of-Nordic-Socialism/.
2. Johan Norberg, “Dead Wrong, with Johan Norberg—Swedish Taxes: Squeeze the Poor,” Free to Choose Network, September 12, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54gVHx3sbGk.
3. Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?”
4. Dorfman, “Sorry Bernie Bros but Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist.”
5. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate.”
6. Dorfman, “Sorry Bernie Bros but Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist.”
7. “Socialism in America,” Economist, August 30, 2018, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/08/30/socialism-in-america.
8. Barack Obama, “Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden in Joint Press Conference,” White House Archives, September 4, 2013, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/04/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-reinfeldt-sweden-joint-press.
9. Nima Sanandaji, “Misreading the Nordic Model,” Foreign Affairs, August 17, 2016, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/northern-europe/2016-08-17/misreading-nordic-model.
10. Moody, “Bernie Sanders’ American Dream is in Denmark.”
11. Lars Hedegaard, “Denmark as a Model for American Socialists,” Gatestone Institute, May 21, 2019, https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12881/denmark-welfare-socialism.
12. Peter Levring, “Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100%,” Bloomberg, August 29, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-29/soon-cars-in-denmark-will-only-be-taxed-at-100.
13. Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?”
14. Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?”
15. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate.”
Chapter 15: Sweden is Shrinking Taxes and Welfare
1. “SWEDEN. Something Souring in Utopia,” Time, July 19, 1976, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914329,00.html.
2. Jeff Jacoby, “No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia Is Not a Socialist Utopia,” Boston Globe, October 15, 2016, https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/10/15/bernie-sanders-scandinavia-not-socialist-utopia/lUk9N7dZotJRbvn8PosoIN/story.html.
3. Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About.”
4. Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All.”
5. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”
6. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left,” The Stream, September 6, 2016, https://stream.org/5-myths-nordic-socialism-mislead-the-american-left/. Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?”
7. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”
8. Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About.”
9. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
10. Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?”
11. Ibid.
12. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
13. Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All.”
14. Daniel J. Mitchell, “Sweden Repeals Wealth Tax,” Cato Institute, March 31, 2007, https://www.cato.org/blog/sweden-repeals-wealth-tax.
15. Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?”
16. Jacoby, “No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia Is Not a Socialist Utopia.”
17. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”
18. Mitchell, “Sweden Repeals Wealth Tax.”
19. Drischler, “Self-Identified Socialists Don’t Know What They’re Talking About.”
20. Mitchell, “Sweden Repeals Wealth Tax.”
21. “TV Says Borg Had Tax Waiver Deal in Sweden,” Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1998, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-01-13-9801140296-story.html.
22. Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All.”
23. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
24. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”
25. Per Bylund, “Turning Their Backs on Sweden’s Welfare State,” Mises Institute, January 27, 2014, https://mises.org/wire/turning-their-backs-swedens-welfare-state.
26. Chris Matthews, “What the Left Gets Wrong About Scandinavia,” Fortune, January 26, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/01/26/democrat-bernie-sanders-scandinavia-socialism/.
Chapter 16: Welfarism Requires High Middle-Class Taxes
1. Brian Riedl, “Why 70 Percent Tax Rates Cannot Finance Socialism,” National Review, January 8, 2019, https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-cannot-finance-socialism/.
2. Ben White, “Soak the Rich? Americans Say Go for It,” Politico, February 4, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/democrats-taxes-economy-policy-2020-1144874.
3. Robert Bellafiore, “America Already Has a Progressive Tax System,” Tax Foundation, January 11, 2019, https://taxfoundation.org/america-progressive-tax-system/.
4. Palumbo, “Does Socialism Work in Scandinavia?”
5. Kai Weiss, “Shattering the Myth of Nordic Socialism,” Svensk Tidskrift, June 8, 2018, http://www.svensktidskrift.se/shattering-the-myth-of-nordic-socialism/.
6. José Niño, “Dismantling the Myth of Scandinavian Exceptionalism,” American Institute for Economic Research, January 13, 2018, https://www.aier.org/article/dismantling-myth-scandinavian-exceptionalism.
7. Mitchell, “Sweden Repeals Wealth Tax,” Cato Institute, March 31, 2007, https://www.cato.org/blog/sweden-repeals-wealth-tax.
8. Per Bylund, “Turning Their Backs on Sweden’s Welfare State,” Mises Institute, January 27, 2014, https://mises.org/wire/turning-their-backs-swedens-welfare-state.
9. Jacoby, “No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia Is Not a Socialist Utopia.”
10. Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?”
11. Plunkett, “Putting an End to the Venezuela vs. Sweden Debate.”
Chapter 17: American Scandinavians Have It Better Here Than In Scandinavia
1. Paul Krugman, “A Lot to Learn from Denmark’s Successes and Failures,” Irish Times¸ October 20, 2015, https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/paul-krugman-a-lot-to-learn-from-denmark-s-successes-and-failures-1.2397860.
2. Ben Shapiro, “America’s Left Is Falling in Love with Scandinavian Socialism. So Why Are Scandinavians Moving Right?,” The Daily Wire, October 19, 2015, https://www.dailywire.com/news/483/americas-left-falling-love-scandinavian-socialism-ben-shapiro.
3. Matthews, “What the Left Gets Wrong About Scandinavia.”
4. William L. Anderson, “Sorry, Stiglitz, It’s Socialism That’s Rigged—Not Capitalism,” Mises Institute, November 14, 2018, https://mises.org/wire/sorry-stiglitz-it’s-socialism-’s-rigged--not-capita.
5. Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All.”
6. Sanandaji, “5 Myths About Nordic Socialism Peddled by the Left.”
7. Ibid.
8. Rich Lowry, “Sorry, Bernie—Scandinavia Is No Socialist Paradise After All.”
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Tyler Cowen, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 20, 2016, https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism/.
12. Jacoby, “No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia Is Not a Socialist Utopia.”
13. Nima Sanandaji, Scandinavian Unexceptionalism (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015), 62.
14. José Niño, “Dismantling the Myth of Scandinavian Exceptionalism,” American Institute for Economic Research, January 13, 2018, https://www.aier.org/article/dismantling-myth-scandinavian-exceptionalism.
15. Cowen, “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism.”
Chapter 18: Swedish College is Free, But It’s Not Cheap or Universal
1. Tiffany May, “For Survivors of a 9-Hour Chinese Exam, a Door Opens to America,” New York Times, June 13, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/world/asia/china-gaokao-new-hampshire.html.
2. Larabell, “Scandinavia: Successful Socialism?”
3. Matt Phillips, “College in Sweden Is Free but Students Still Have a Ton of Debt. How Can That Be?,” Quartz, May 31, 2013, https://qz.com/85017/college-in-sweden-is-free-but-students-still-have-a-ton-of-debt-how-can-that-be/.
Chapter 19: Socialism Becomes Authoritarianism
1. Tyler Curtis, “George Bernard Shaw Was so Enamored with Socialism He Advocated Genocide to Advance It,” Foundation for Economic Education, January 9, 2019, https://fee.org/articles/george-bernard-shaw-was-so-enamored-with-socialism-he-advocated-genocide-to-advance-it/.
2. George Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian,” Mises Institute, November 11, 2005, https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian.
3. Chris Smith, “In Conversation: Bill de Blasio,” New York, September 4, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/09/bill-de-blasio-in-conversation.html?gtm=bottom.
4. Ibid.
5. Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian.”
6. Nick Givas, “Rubio Leads Bipartisan Backlash After De Blasio Quotes Castro Ally Che Guevara,” Fox News, June 27, 2019. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-apologizes-for-che-guevara-quote-seiu.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
Chapter 20: Hitler was a Socialist
1. George Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream,” Independent, November 22, 1998, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, vol. 4, 1946. “Translation of Document 1708-PS,” Washington, DC: Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NT_Nazi_Vol-IV.pdf, 208–11.
4. F. A. Hayek, The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, vol. 2, The Road to Serfdom (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2008).
5. Jonah Goldberg, “Nazis: Still Socialists,” National Review, February 27, 2014.
6. Ibid.
7. Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian.”
8. Peter Drucker, The End of Economic Man: A Study of the New Totalitarianism (New York: John Day, 1939), 246.
9. George Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream,” Independent, November 22, 1998, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html.
10. Ibid.
11. George Orwell, “Shopkeepers at War,” in The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (London, 1941), http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_saw.
12. Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream.”
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Gregor Strasser, “Thoughts About the Tasks of the Future: The Spirit of the Economy,” Nazi Ideology before 1933, translated by Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1978), 89.
18. Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream.”
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
Chapter 21: The Nazis hated Capitalism
1. Chris Calton, “The Myth of ‘Nazi Capitalism,’” Mises Institute, October 30, 2017, https://mises.org/library/myth-nazi-capitalism.
2. Ibid.
3. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
Chapter 22: The Nazis Didn’t Believe in Private Property
1. Ludwig Von Mises, “Planned Chaos,” Mises Institute, April 1, 1961, https://mises.org/library/myth-nazi-capitalism.
2. Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian.”
3. Ayn Rand, “The Fascist New Frontier,” Ayn Rand Column, http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/fascism-nazism.html.
4. Leonard Peikoff, “The Cause of Nazism,” in The Ominous Parallels (New York: Stein & Day, 1982), http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/fascism-nazism.html.
5. Chris Calton, “The Myth of ‘Nazi Capitalism,’” Mises Institute, October 30, 2017, https://mises.org/library/myth-nazi-capitalism.
6. Adam Young, “Nazism Is Socialism,” Mises Institute, September 1, 2001, https://mises.org/library/nazism-socialism.
7. Calton, “The Myth of ‘Nazi Capitalism.’”
8. Young, “Nazism Is Socialism.”
9. Ibid.
10. Ralph Reiland, “National Socialism,” Mises Institute, September 28, 1998, https://mises.org/es/library/national-socialism.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Young, “Nazism Is Socialism.”
14. Ibid.
15. Reisman, “Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian.”
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Young, “Nazism is Socialism.”
Chapter 23: Socialism Encourages Eugenics
1. George Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream,” Independent, November 22, 1998, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Jonathan Freedland, “Eugenics: The Skeleton That Rattles Loudest in the Left’s Closet,” Guardian, February 17, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/eugenics-skeleton-rattles-loudest-closet-left.
5. Ibid.
6. John J. Conley, “Margaret Sanger Was a Eugenicist,” America Magazine, November 27, 2017, https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/11/27/margaret-sanger-was-eugenicist-why-are-we-still-celebrating-her.
7. Ibid.
8. Freedland, “Eugenics: The Skeleton that Rattles Loudest in the Left’s Closet.”
9. Ibid.
10. Gavan Tredoux, Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday (New York: Encounter Books, 2018).
11. Ibid.
12. Freedland, “Eugenics: The Skeleton that Rattles Loudest in the Left’s Closet.”
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Matthew McCaffrey, “The Economic Evil of Eugenics,” Mises Institute, February 2, 2017, https://mises.org/wire/economic-evil-eugenics.
16. Freedland, “Eugenics: The Skeleton that Rattles Loudest in the Left’s Closet.”
17. Ibid.
18. Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream.”
19. Ibid.
Chapter 24: Your Degree of Enthusiasm for Socialism May Decide Whether You Live or Die
1. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/page/n1.
2. Michael Brendan Dougherty, “The Rand Paul Clap Gap,” Week, March 5, 2015, https://theweek.com/articles/542480/rand-paul-clap-gap-why-gop-afraid-have-real-debate-about-foreign-policy.
3. Seth Lipsky, “Unlike Obama, Rand Paul and Congress Have Israel’s Back,” Haaretz, May 4, 2014, https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-rand-paul-and-congress-have-israel-s-back-1.5247155.
4. Dougherty, “The Rand Paul Clap Gap.”
5. Matt Purple, “Rand Paul Found Guilty of Not Clapping Hard Enough for Bibi Netanyahu,” Rare, March 4, 2015, https://rare.us/rare-politics/youre-not-helping/rand-paul-found-guilty-of-not-clapping-hard-enough-for-bibi-netanyahu/.
Chapter 25: Socialism Promises Equality and Leads to Tyranny
1. Richard M. Ebeling, “Why Socialism Is Impossible,” Foundation for Economic Education, October 1, 2004, https://fee.org/articles/why-socialism-is-impossible/.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ebeling, “Why Socialism Is Impossible.”
5. Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1974).
6. Riazat Butt, “Darwinism, Through a Chinese Lens,” Guardian, November 16, 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/16/darwin-evolution-china-politics.
7. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After (New York: Free Press, 1999), 17.
8. James Piereson, “Socialism as a Hate Crime,” New Criterion, August 21, 2018, https://www.newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/socialism-as-a-hate-crime-9746.
9. Nicholas D. Kristof, “China’s Rise Goes Beyond Gold Medals,” Spiegel Online, August 21, 2008, https://www.spiegel.de/international/nicholas-d-kristof-china-s-rise-goes-beyond-gold-medals-a-573436.html.
10. Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62 (New York: Walker Books, 2010), 333.
11. Frank Dikötter, “Q. & A.: Frank Dikötter on Famine and Mao,” interview by Evan Osnos, New Yorker, December 15, 2010, https://www.newyorker.com/news/evan-osnos/q-a-frank-diktter-on-famine-and-mao.
12. Frank Dikötter, “Mao’s Great Leap to Famine,” New York Times, December 15, 2010, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/opinion/16iht-eddikotter16.html.
13. Ibid.
14. Yang Jisheng, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962 (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013), translated by Edward Friedman, 40.
15. Yang Jisheng, “How Friedrich Hayek Helped Me to Understand China’s Economic Tragedy,” Forbes, May 30, 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/05/30/how-friedrich-hayek-helped-me-to-understand-chinas-economic-tragedy/#6db026f343e0.
16. Dikötter, “Q. & A.: Frank Dikötter on Famine and Mao.”
17. Yang Jisheng, “How Friedrich Hayek Helped Me to Understand China’s Economic Tragedy.”
18. Ibid.
Chapter 26: All Aspects of Culture Eventually Become Targets for the Planners
1. Tom Phillips, “The Cultural Revolution: All You Need to Know About China’s Political Convulsion,” Guardian, May 10, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion.
2. Ming Wang, From Darkness to Sight ([n.p.]: Dunham Books, 2016).
3. Phillips, “The Cultural Revolution.”
4. Alice Shen, “During the Cultural Revolution He Had to Toil in the Fields, Now He’s Leading China’s Biggest Ever Antarctic Mission,” South China Morning Post, December 5, 2018, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2176362/during-cultural-revolution-he-had-toil-fields-now-hes-leading.
5. Chris Buckley, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Jane Perlez, and Amy Qin, “Voices from China’s Cultural Revolution,” New York Times, May 16, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/16/world/asia/17china-cultural-revolution-voices.html.
6. Ibid.
7. Zehao Zhou, “I Survived China’s Horrific Cultural Revolution,” York Daily Record, May 11, 2016, https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/05/11/survived-chinas-horrific-cultural-revolution-column/84192734/.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Karoline Kan, “My Uncle Was a Red Guard in China’s Cultural Revolution. He Isn’t Sorry,” Foreign Policy, May 16, 2016, https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/16/my-uncle-was-a-red-guard-in-chinas-cultural-revolution-he-isnt-sorry/.
11. Ibid.
12. Tania Branigan, “China’s Cultural Revolution,” Guardian, March 27, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/27/china-cultural-revolution-sons-guilt-zhang-hongping.
13. David McKenzie and Steven Jiang, “Murdered for Mao,” CNN, June 4, 2014, https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/04/world/asia/china-maoist-scars/index.html.
14. David Segal, “China Brings Its Past to Ping-Pong’s Birthplace,” New York Times, July 29, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/sports/olympics/china-brings-its-past-to-ping-pongs-birthplace.html.
Chapter 27: If No One Has to Work, No One Will
1. David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein, “The Secret Document That Transformed China,” NPR, January 20, 2012, http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china.
Chapter 28: The Cure for Failed Socialism is Always More Socialism
1. Robin McDowell, “Pol Pot: Mistakes Were Made,” AP News, October 23, 1997, https://www.apnews.com/2a1128d4b0c52563496f1e296df0a229.
2. Martin Woollacott, “King Norodom Sihanouk Obituary,” Guardian, October 15, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/15/king-norodom-sihanouk.
3. Andrew Cook, “Lost in Cambodia,” Guardian, January 9, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/10/malcolm-caldwell-pol-pot-murder.
4. Vincent Cook, “Pol Pot and the Marxist Ideal,” Department of Economics and Mercatus Center, George Mason University, http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/cook.htm.
5. Morgan O. Reynolds, “The Cambodian Experiment in Retrospect,” Foundation for Economic Education, May 1, 1989, https://fee.org/articles/the-cambodian-experiment-in-retrospect/.
6. Ibid.
7. Cook, “Pol Pot and the Marxist Ideal.”
8. Meg Sullivan, “UCLA Demographer Produces Best Estimate Yet of Cambodia’s Death Toll Under Pol Pot,” UCLA Newsroom, April 16, 2015, https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-demographer-produces-best-estimate-yet-of-cambodias-death-toll-under-pol-pot.
9. Reynolds, “The Cambodian Experiment in Retrospect.”
10. James Piereson, “Socialism as a Hate Crime,” New Criterion, August 21, 2018, https://www.newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/socialism-as-a-hate-crime-9746.
11. Reynolds, “The Cambodian Experiment in Retrospect.”
12. Elaine McArdle, “Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The Saddest Sight of All,” The Whole World Is a Playground, June 13, 2014, https://www.thewholeworldisaplayground.com/killing-fields-choeung-ek-phnom-penh-cambodia/.
13. Ibid.
14. Georgie Anne Geyer, “French Marxism and Young Cambodians Were a Deadly Mix,” Chicago Tribune, June 27, 1997, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-06-27-9706270087-story.html.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. “‘Killing Fields’ Death Toll May Be Closer to 2 Million,” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/01/26/killing-fields-death-toll-may-be-closer-to-2-million/755b1cd0-f09e-4b11-98c8-cef6e11be45e/?utm_term=.02324da35779.
19. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956 (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 173.
20. Geyer, “French Marxism and Young Cambodians Were a Deadly Mix.”
21. McArdle, “Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The Saddest Sight of All.”
22. Reynolds, “The Cambodian Experiment in Retrospect.”
23. Cook, “Pol Pot and the Marxist Ideal.”
24. Reynolds, “The Cambodian Experiment in Retrospect.”
Chapter 29: Poetry can be dangerous under Socialism
1. Osip Mandelstam, “The Stalin Epigram,” Poets.org, translated by W. S. Merwin and Clarence Brown, 1989, https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/stalin-epigram.
2. Viv Groskop, The Anna Karenina Fix (New York: Abrams, 2005).
3. Eimear McBride, “‘It Gets People Killed’: Osip Mandelstam and the Perils of Writing Poetry Under Stalin,” New Statesman, May 9, 2017, https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/poetry/2017/05/it-gets-people-killed-osip-mandelstam-and-perils-writing-poetry-under-stalin.
4. Ibid.
5. Nadezha Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir, translated by Max Hayward (London: Modern Library, 1999), 83.
6. Carl Schreck and Nikita Tatarsky, “Tortured Past,” Radio Free Europe, December 27, 2018, https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-memorial-victims-and-perpetrators-of-stalin-s-purges-stand-side-by-side/29679174.html.
7. John Crowfoot, “Witness to the Persecution,” Guardian, April 16, 2004, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview9; Anonymous Writers, “Mandelstam’s ‘Ode’ to Stalin,” Cambridge University Press, https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/EEE7E9FF664CE46C4FE8F8E25E12AC5D/S0037677900068066a.pdf/div-class-title-mandelstam-s-ode-to-stalin-div.pdf.
8. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), 3–4.
9. George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Signet Classics, 1961), 75.
10. Schreck and Tatarsky, “Tortured Past.”
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. “‘Whisperers’ of Stalin’s Russia Find Their Voice,” NPR, Weekend Edition, December 22, 2007, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17376494.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind, translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward (New York: Harcourt, 1967), 174.
Chapter 30: It’s Not Socialism Without Purges
1. “Jon Basil Utley,” Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, http://www.fgfbooks.com/Utley/Utley-bio.html.
2. Georgie Anne Geyer, “Son Solves Mystery of Father’s Death in Soviet Gulag,” UExpress, September 24, 2007, https://www.uexpress.com/georgie-anne-geyer/2007/9/24/son-solves-mystery-of-fathers-death.
3. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (New York: Bantam Books, 1990), 18.
4. Jon Basil Utley, “Vorkuta to Perm,” Foundation for Economic Education, July 1, 2005, https://fee.org/articles/vorkuta-to-perm-russias-concentration-camp-museums-and-my-fathers-story/.
5. Geyer, “Son Solves Mystery of Father’s Death in Soviet Gulag.”
6. James Piereson, “Socialism as a Hate Crime,” New Criterion, August 21, 2018, https://www.newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/socialism-as-a-hate-crime-9746.
Chapter 31: Socialism Expects Selfless Rulers and Citizens
1. Richard Kilminster, “The Debate About Utopias from a Sociological Perspective,” Human Figurations, June 2014, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0003.203/--debate-about-utopias-from-a-sociological-perspective?rgn=main;view=fulltext.
2. Merijn Oudenampsen, “In Defence of Utopia,” Krisis, no. 1 (2016), https://krisis.eu/in-defence-of-utopia/.
3. Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1945), v.
4. Karl R. Popper, “Science as Falsification,” University of Washington, September 21, 2016, https://staff.washington.edu/lynnhank/Popper-1.pdf.
5. Oudenampsen, “In Defence of Utopia.”
6. William Gorton, “Karl Popper: Political Philosophy,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://www.iep.utm.edu/popp-pol/.
7. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2017), 570.
8. Roger Kimball, “Francis Fukuyama and the End of History,” New Criterion, February 1992, https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/1992/2/francis-fukuyama-and-the-end-of-history.
9. Leon Trotsky, “Revolutionary and Socialist Art,” Literature and Revolution, Marxists.org, June 1, 2007, https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch08.htm.
10. Murray N. Rothbard, “Marx as Utopian,” Mises Institute, November 8, 2012, https://mises.org/library/marx-utopian.
11. Adam B. Ulam, The Bolsheviks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Chapter 32: Progress Comes From Rebels and Dreamers
1. Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Crystal Palace,” Britannica.com, May 29, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Crystal-Palace-building-London.
2. David Patterson, Exile: The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995), 31.
3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Notes from Underground: Chapter VII,” Adelaide University, March 27, 2016, https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72n/chapter8.html.
4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Notes from Underground: Chapter IX,” Adelaide University, March 27, 2016, https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72n/chapter10.html.
5. Dostoyevsky, “Notes from Underground: Chapter VII.”
6. Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (New York: HarperCollins, 1972), 3.
7. Evgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).
8. Matthew Rothschild, “Margaret Atwood Interview,” Progressive, December 2, 2010, https://progressive.org/magazine/margaret-atwood-interview/.
9. Evgeny Zamyatin, We: New Edition (New York: Penguin, 1993), 65–66.
10. Adrian Wanner, “The Underground Man as Big Brother,” Utopian Studies, Winter 1997, https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-19535193/the-underground-man-as-big-brother-dostoevsky-s-and.
11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Short Novels of the Masters: Notes from Underground, edited by Charles Neider (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001), 146.
12. Sarah J. Young, “Russian Thought Lecture 5,” SarahJYoung.com, December 10, 2012, http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/12/10/russian-thought-lecture-5-dostoevsky-and-the-anti-rationalist-argument/; Ulam, The Bolsheviks; Adrian Wanner, “The Underground Man as Big Brother: Dostoevsky’s and Orwell’s Anti-Utopia,” Utopian Studies 8, no. 1 (1997): 77–88 (handout).
Chapter 33: Freedom is Not the Inevitable Outcome of History and Must Be Protected
1. William Gorton, “Karl Popper: Political Philosophy,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://www.iep.utm.edu/popp-pol/.
2. Eliane Glaser, “Bring Back Ideology,” Guardian, March 21, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/21/bring-back-ideology-fukuyama-end-history-25-years-on.
3. Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee, “It’s Still Not the End of History,” Atlantic, September 1, 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/its-still-not-the-end-of-history-francis-fukuyama/379394/.
4. Ibid.
5. Kimball, “Francis Fukuyama and the End of History.”
6. Ibid.
7. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), xii.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., xx.
10. Isaac Ben-Israel, “Beware of Rule by Dreamers,” Haaretz, August 1, 2003, https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/1.5354195.
11. Kimball, “Francis Fukuyama and the End of History.”
12. Stanley and Lee, “It’s Still Not the End of History”; Glaser, “Bring Back Ideology.”
Chapter 34: Socialism Leads to Cronyism
1. Byron Schlomach, “Crony Capitalism Is Just Socialism Lite,” Hill, July 24, 2018, https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/398593-crony-capitalism-is-just-socialism-lite.
2. Ibid.
3. Robert Bellafiore, “America Already Has a Progressive Tax System,” Tax Foundation, January 11, 2019, https://taxfoundation.org/america-progressive-tax-system/.
4. Adam Brandon, “Are You a Multimillionaire Who Wants to Pay Your ‘Fair Share’? Just Donate to the Government,” Washington Examiner, April 9, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/are-you-a-multimillionaire-who-wants-to-pay-your-fair-share-just-donate-to-the-government.
Chapter 35: If Socialists Can’t Find a Crisis, They Will Create One
1. Yaron Steinbuch, “AOC Explains Why ‘Farting Cows’ Were Considered in Green New Deal,” New York Post, February 22, 2019, https://nypost.com/2019/02/22/aoc-explains-why-farting-cows-were-considered-in-green-new-deal/.
2. Miguel Bustillo, “In San Joaquin Valley, Cows Pass Cars as Polluters,” Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2005, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-02-me-cows2-story.html.
3. Diane Francis, “The Real Inconvenient Truth,” Financial Post, December 14, 2009, http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2314438.
4. Jeff Cox, “Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Offers ‘Economic Security’ for Those ‘Unwilling to Work,’” CNBC, February 7, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-offers-economic-security-for-those-unwilling-to-work.html.
5. Robert Bellafiore, “A Growing Percentage of Americans Have Zero Income Tax Liability,” Tax Foundation, March 14, 2019, https://taxfoundation.org/america-progressive-tax-system/.
6. “Earned Income Tax Credit: Small Benefits, Large Costs,” Cato Institute.
7. José Niño, “A ‘Universal Basic Income’ Costs More Than You Think,” Mises Institute, June 21, 2018, https://mises.org/wire/universal-basic-income-costs-more-you-think.
8. David Williams, “Solar Energy Delivers Too Little Bang for Billions Invested,” Forbes, February 25, 2015, https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2015/02/25/solar-energy-delivers-too-little-bang-for-billions-invested/#3651fa6349f3.
9. “Climate Change Investment Totals USD $359 Billion Worldwide,” Climate Policy Initiative, October 22, 2013, https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/press-release/climate-change-investment-totals-usd-359-billion-worldwide/.
10. Stephen Moore, “Follow the (Climate Change) Money,” Heritage Foundation, December 18, 2018.
11. “Klimapolitik verteilt das Weltvermögen neu,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 14, 2010.
12. Barbara Hollingsworth, “UN’s Top Climate Official: Goal is to ‘Intentionally Transform the Economic Development Model,’” CNS News, February 18, 2015; Benjamin Zycher, “The Climate Comintern Speaks,” Hill, February 10, 2015, https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/232229-the-climate-comintern-speaks.
13. “Klimapolitik verteilt das Weltvermögen neu,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 14, 2010.
14. Robert Rapier, “Yes, the U.S. Leads All Countries in Reducing Carbon Emissions,” Forbes, October 24, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-leads-all-countries-in-reducing-carbon-emissions/#111ea2b35355.
15. Stephen Moore, “Who’s the Cleanest of them All,” Washington Times, August 19, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/19/the-united-states-didnt-sign-the-paris-climate-acc/.
Chapter 36: Socialism and Climate Change Alarmism Go Together
1. Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus), “If you are wondering,” Twitter, October 8, 2015, https://twitter.com/ericholthaus/status/1049339997827084295?lang=en.
2. Matthew Huber, “Five Principles of a Socialist Climate Politics,” The Trouble, August 16, 2018, https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2018/8/16/five-principals-of-a-socialist-climate-politics.
3. Ian Schwartz, “Chuck Todd: We’re Not Going to Give Time to Climate Deniers,” Real Clear Politics, January 2, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/02/chuck_todd_im_not_going_to_give_time_to_climate_deniers.html.
4. Michael Guillen, “Physicist: Don’t Fall for the Argument About ‘Settled Science,’” Fox News, January 21, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/physicist-dont-fall-for-the-argument-about-settled-science.
5. Susan Crockford and Patrick Moore, “What David Attenborough and Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’ Get Wrong About Climate Change,” Townhall, April 14, 2019, https://townhall.com/columnists/drpatrickmoore/2019/04/14/what-netflixs-our-planet-gets-wrong-about-climate-change-n2544726.
6. Adam Popescu, “A Greenland Glacier Is Growing. That Doesn’t Mean Melting Is Over,” National Geographic, March 25, 2019, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/one-part-of-greenland-ice-growing/.
7. John Bowden, “Ocasio-Cortez: ‘World Will End in 12 Years’ if Climate Change Not Addressed,” Hill, January 22, 2019, https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address.
8. Coral Davenport, “Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040,” New York Times, October 7, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html.
9. Tamar Lapin, “Scientists Admit Errors in Study Showing Oceans are Warming,” New York Post, November 15, 2018, https://nypost.com/2018/11/15/scientists-admit-errors-in-study-showing-oceans-are-warming/.
10. Chris Mooney and Bray Dennis, “Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans are Warming,” Washington Post, November 13, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/14/scientists-acknowledge-key-errors-study-how-fast-oceans-are-warming/?utm_term=.37e695cd62fd.
11. Ben Shapiro, “No, Global Warming Isn’t the End of the World. Here’s Why,” Daily Wire, October 11, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/37021/no-global-warming-isnt-end-world-heres-why-ben-shapiro.
12. “IPCC Third Assessment Report, Chapter 14, Section 14.2.2.2,” IPCC, 2001, https://archive.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/505.htm.
13. Joshua K. Willis, Andrew Kemp, and Benjamin H. Strauss, “Sea Level Rise: Introduction,” Smithsonian, April 2018, https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-rise.
14. “Global Warming Is Only Part Human Caused,” Open Source Systems, Science, Solutions, http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/myths/global-warming-is-only-part-human-caused.
Chapter 37: Socialist Green New Deal Allows for No Dissent
1. Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century (London: Norton, 2000), 111.
2. Ibid.
3. Megan Murphy, “Twitter Wants Me to Shut Up and the Right Wants Me to Join Them; I Don’t Think I Should Have to Do Either,” Feminist Current, November 20, 2018.
4. Nicole Russell, “Twitter Permanently Bans Feminist for Writing That ‘Men Aren’t Women,’” Federalist, November 25, 2018, https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/25/twitter-permanently-bans-feminist-writing-men-arent-women/.
5. Ibid.
6. Jack Shafer, “The Conservative Revolt Against Twitter,” Politico, November 26, 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/26/the-conservative-revolt-against-twitter-222688.
7. Russell, “Twitter Permanently Bans Feminist for Writing That ‘Men Aren’t Women.’”
8. Michael Nunez, “Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News,” Gizmodo, May 9, 2016, https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006.
9. Ibid.
10. Jason Pye and Daniel Savickas, “Pingree, Ocasio-Cortez Pressure Big-Tech CEOs for Sponsoring LibertyCon,” Federalist, February 11, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/11/pingree-ocasio-cortez-pressure-big-tech-ceos-sponsoring-libertycon/.
11. Andy Ngo, “Hate-Crime Hoaxes Reflect America’s Sickness,” National Review, February 18, 2019, https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/hate-crime-hoaxes-reflect-americas-sickness/.
12. “Organist Spray Painted ‘Heil Trump,’ Swastika, Gay Slur on Brown County Church,” Fox 59, May 3, 2017, https://fox59.com/2017/05/03/police-organist-spray-painted-heil-trump-swastika-gay-slur-on-brown-county-church/; WWL Staff, “Lafayette woman faces criminal charges after falsely claiming Trump supporters robbed her,” 4WWL, November 11, 2016; “Police: Threat to burn UM student wearing hijab did not happen,” Fox 2, December 21, 2016.
Chapter 38: Fake News and Propaganda on the Rise in America
1. Andrew Sullivan “The Abyss of Hate Versus Hate,” New York, January 25, 2019, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/01/andrew-sullivan-the-abyss-of-hate-versus-hate.html?utm_source=tw&__twitter_impression=true.
2. Caitlin Flanagan, “The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story,” Atlantic, January 23, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/.
3. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon Pile on Covington Students over MAGA Hats,” Fox News, January 23, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnns-chris-cuomo-don-lemon-pile-on-covington-students-over-maga-hats.
4. Paul Bedard, “68% Say the Media are Biased, Just 21% Trust ‘a Lot,’” Washington Examiner, September 25, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/pew-68-say-the-media-are-biased-just-21-trust-a-lot.
5. Dionne Gleaton, “Bakari Sellers Says Tweet Not Promoting Violence, Students Symbolize Bigotry, Division,” Times and Democrat, January 22, 2019, https://thetandd.com/bakari-sellers-says-tweet-not-promoting-violence-students-symbolize-bigotry/article_6b5cf25d-bb55-5ed1-abd0-7cf5487eede3.html.
6. Marlon James, “Here’s the Thing About Covington Catholic School Boy,” Facebook, January 20, 2019, https://www.facebook.com/marlon.james1/posts/10157054513240850.
7. John Kass, “Thought Crimes, Media Abuse and Those Catholic High School Boys from Covington,” Chicago Tribune, January 23, 2019, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-covington-catholic-dc-video-kass-20190122-story.html; Kyle Smith, “Hatcrime and Facecrime,” National Review, January 23, 2019, https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/covington-catholic-maga-hatcrime-facecrime/; Sarah Mervosh, “Viral Video Shows Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Surrounding Native Elder,” New York Times, January 19, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/covington-catholic-high-school-nathan-phillips.html?login=email&auth=login-email; Jon Levine, “GQ Writer Regrets Tweet Calling for Covington Students to Be Doxxed,” Wrap, January 21, 2019, https://www.thewrap.com/gq-writer-regrets-call-for-doxxing-covington-catholic-high-school-students/; Dionne Gleaton, “Backari Sellers Says Tweet Not Promoting Violence, Students Symbolize Bigotry, Division,” Times and Democrat, January 22, 2019, https://thetandd.com/bakari-sellers-says-tweet-not-promoting-violence-students-symbolize-bigotry/article_6b5cf25d-bb55-5ed1-abd0-7cf5487eede3.html; Tucker Carlson, “Covington Story Was Not About Race but About People in Power Attacking People They’ve Failed,” Fox News, January 22, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-covington-story-was-not-about-race-but-about-people-in-power-attacking-people-theyve-failed; Steve Cortes, “Buzzfeed, the Covington Teens and the Harm of False Witness,” Real Clear Politics, January 22, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/22/buzzfeed_the_covington_teens_and_the_harms_of_false_witness_139247.html; Tucker Carlson, “There’s No Sympathy for Covington Catholic Teens in America’s Newsrooms,” Fox News, January 23, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-theres-no-sympathy-for-covington-catholic-teens-in-americas-newsrooms.
Chapter 39: Welcome to the Panopticon: FaceCrime, PreCrime, and the Surveillance State
1. Harry Cockburn, “China Blacklists Millions of People from Booking Flights as ‘Social Credit’ System Introduced,” Independent, November 22, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-social-credit-system-flight-booking-blacklisted-beijing-points-a8646316.html.
2. James O’Malley, “China’s Social Credit System: The Big Experiment to Turn Real Life into a Video Game,” National, November 20, 2018, https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/comment/china-s-social-credit-system-the-big-experiment-to-turn-real-life-into-a-video-game-1.793732.
3. Anders Corr, “China’s Surveillance State: Using Technology to Shape Behavior,” La Croix International, February 1, 2019, https://international.la-croix.com/news/chinas-surveillance-state-using-technology-to-shape-behavior/9374#.
4. Alex Linder, “Facial Recognition Toiler Paper Dispenser Rolled Out at Shanghai Public Bathroom!,” Shanghaiist, June 8, 2018, http://shanghaiist.com/2018/06/08/facial-recognition-toilet-paper-dispenser-rolled-out-at-shanghai-public-bathroom/.
5. Nicole Kobie, “The Complicated Truth about China’s Social Credit System,” Wired, January 21, 2019, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained.
6. Eamon Barrett, “In China, Facial Recognition Tech Is Watching You,” Fortune, October 28, 2018, http://fortune.com/2018/10/28/in-china-facial-recognition-tech-is-watching-you/.
7. David Edelstein, “Blame Runner,” Slate, May 22, 2019, http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2002/06/blame_runner.html.
8. Alex Peak, “Minority Report: The Security State and Civil Liberties,” AlexPeak.com, http://alexpeak.com/art/films/mr/statism/; John Powers, “Majority Report,” LA Weekly, June 19, 2002, http://www.laweekly.com/news/majority-report-2134959.
9. Stephen Carson, “Films on Liberty and the State,” Mises Institute, November 13, 2006, https://mises.org/library/films-liberty-and-state-1.
10. James Wilkinson, “Civil Liberties Union Horrified by Chicago PD’s ‘Minority Report’ Computer Algorithm That Can Predict Who Might Be a Victim of Crime—or Commit One,” Daily Mail, May 27, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3613708/Civil-liberties-union-horrified-Chicago-PD-s-Minority-Report-computer-algorithm-predict-victim-crime-commit-one.html#ixzz4wiSTcreR.
11. Simon McCormack, “When Minority Report Becomes New Yorkers’ Reality,” ACLU, October 11, 2016, https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/when-minority-report-becomes-new-yorkers-reality.
12. Ibid.
13. Barrett, “In China, Facial Recognition Tech is Watching You.”
14. G. Clay Whittaker, “China Wants to Make ‘Minority Report’ a Reality,” Daily Beast, March 18, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-wants-to-make-minority-report-a-reality.
Afterword: Finding Common Ground
1. Mark Joseph Stern, “The New Criminal Justice Reform Law Has Already Righted One Outrageous Injustice,” Slate, January 3, 2019, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/matthew-charles-released-under-first-step-act.html; Julieta Martinelli, “As He Heads Back to Prison, a Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ to the New Life He Hoped to Build,” Nashville Public Radio, May 25, 2018, https://www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/he-heads-back-prison-nashville-man-says-goodbye-new-life-he-hoped-build#stream/0.
2. Mary Ann Georgantopoulos, “A Man Was Charged with Pulling a Gun on a Kentucky Couple for Wearing MAGA Hats,” BuzzFeed News, February 19, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/gun-allegedly-pulled-couple-maga-hat-trump-supporters.
3. Heather Mac Donald, “The Frenzied Search for Racism,” City Journal, February 18, 2019, https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry.