How was a liberal society to respond to the poverty, overcrowding, dirt, malnutrition and ill health of the new industrial cities? How were the working masses to be brought into the community—as voter...
Decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.
By 1945 few people believed any longer in the magic of the market. This was an intellectual revolution.
Worse, the language of politics itself has been vacated of substance and meaning.
When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end of History. Henceforth, the world belonged to libe...
What an enormous longing for a new human order there was in the era between the world wars, and what a miserable failure to live up to it.’(Arthur Koestler)
We should by now have learned that politics remains national, even if economics does not: the history of the 20th century offers copious evidence that even in healthy democracies, bad political choice...
We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of ‘revolution’.
We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.
We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health.
V následujících letech Izrael znehodnotí, podkopá a nakonec zničí význam a využitelnost holokaustu a omezí jej na to, co v něm již dnes přiznaně mnoho lidí vidí, totiž izraelskou výmluvu pro vlastní n...
True, many radicals of the ’60s were quite enthusiastic supporters of imposed choices, but only when these affected distant peoples of whom they knew little.
The result in all these cities, from Berlin to Stalingrad, was the classic Soviet-era housing solution: mile upon mile of identical gray or brown cement blocks; cheap, poorly-constructed, with no dist...
Speciálně v Československu dospěl ústup od politiky a názorová privatizace od rozdrcení pražského jara velmi daleko. „Normalizace, tedy čistky, jež odstranily tisíce mužů a žen ze všech veřejných či v...
Romanians, however, paid a terrible price for Ceauşescu’s privileged status. In 1966, to increase the population—a traditional ‘Romanianist’ obsession—he prohibited abortion for women under forty with...
Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by today's Euro-idealists. It was the insecure...
No basta, a fin de cuentas, con «matar al padre»: también es preciso comprenderlo. De lo contrario, en el peor de los casos, uno se arriesga a repetir sus mismos errores. Salvo
Men like Hayek or von Mises seemed doomed to professional and cultural marginality. Only when the welfare states whose failure they had so sedulously predicted began to run into difficulties did they...
La psicología, al fin y al cabo, y en este sentido guarda claras similitudes tanto con el marxismo como con la tradición judeocristiana, propone una narración de autoengaño, sufrimiento necesario, dec...
Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another.