These days, we take pride in being tough enough to inflict pain on others.
The 20th century morality tale of ‘socialism vs. freedom’ or ‘communism vs. capitalism’ is misleading. Capitalism is not a political system; it is a form of economic life, compatible in practice with...
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...
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)
Values such as these derived from longstanding religious or communitarian practices.
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
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...
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.
If government is the problem and society does not exist, then the role of the state is reduced once again to that of facilitator.
We lose faith not just in parliamentarians and congressmen, but in Parliament and Congress themselves.
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...
Margaret Thatcher, like George W. Bush and Tony Blair after her, never hesitated to augment the repressive and information-gathering arms of central government.
The victory of conservatism and the profound transformation brought about over the course of the next three decades was thus far from inevitable: it took an intellectual revolution.
Had brought Stalin credibility and influence, in the counsels of governments and on the streets.
The welfare states of continental Europe—what the French call the Etat providence, or providential state—followed yet a third model. Here, the emphasis was primarily on protecting the employed citizen...
Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for and against the Monarchy, for and against t...
We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.
The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply.
However, for Keynes it had become self-evident that the best defense against political extremism and economic collapse was an increased role for the state, including but not confined to countercyclica...
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