The day after Castro appears to have stepped down from leading the workers' paradise just south of Key West, Florida, called Cuba. But they never judge these things by their factual outcome. Ann Applebaum writes about it in her book on the Gulag where she talks about how strange it is that it's not polite to walk around in civil society wearing Nazi regalia. You're allowed to wear communist memorabilia is considered hip.
Thomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. He discusses the misleading nature of measured income inequality, CEO pay, why nations grow or stay poor, the role of intellectuals and experts in designing public policy, and immigration.