The second dilemma we face concerns the social consequences of technological change.
Politically speaking, ours is an age of the pygmies.
Moreover, a social service provided by a private company does not present itself as a collective good to which all citizens have a right.
Privatization reverses a centuries-long process whereby the state took on things that individuals could not or would not do.
Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question was not how to celebrate a magnifi...
Why are we so sure that some planning, or progressive taxation, or the collective ownership of public goods, are intolerable restrictions on liberty; whereas closed-circuit television cameras, state b...
Between 1983 and 2001, mistrustfulness increased markedly in the US, the UK and Ireland—three
La Primera Guerra Mundial destruyó la vieja Europa; la Segunda Guerra Mundial generó las condiciones para una nueva.
Silence over Europe’s recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future.
So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence.
The EEC was grounded in weakness, not strength. As Spaak’s 1956 report emphasized, ‘Europe, which once had the monopoly of manufacturing industries and obtained important resources from its overseas p...
The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the very practical business of urban life and the maintenance of cleanliness and civ...
Insecurity breeds fear. And fear—fear of change, fear of
What exactly is a ‘gated community’ and why does it matter?
Nonetheless, he was sensitive not just to the need for countercyclical economic policies to head off future depression, but also to the prudential virtues of ‘the social security state’.
Hence the famous bon mot of Lord Ismay, who took up his post as NATO’s
Restriction upon autonomy and initiative.
The social question is back on the agenda.
Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated the French Revolution, like the reformers and planners of the New Deal and pos...
Socialism for social democrats, especially in Scandinavia, was a distributive concept. It was about making sure that wealth and assets were not disproportionately gathered into the hands of a privileg...
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