Margaret Thatcher, like George W. Bush and Tony Blair after her, never hesitated to augment the repressive and information-gathering arms of central government.
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.
Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.
In the eyes of Hayek and his contemporaries, the European tragedy had thus been brought about by the shortcomings of the Left: first through its inability to achieve its objectives and then thanks to...
In September 1944 there were 7,487,000 foreigners in Germany, most of them there against their will, and they constituted 21 percent of the country’s labour force.
If government is the problem and society does not exist, then the role of the state is reduced once again to that of facilitator.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live. —KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI
Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men.
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...
Re-surfaced.
Open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for ‘security’.
In an Apparently Godless Era.
Had brought Stalin credibility and influence, in the counsels of governments and on the streets.
Decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.
Worse, the language of politics itself has been vacated of substance and meaning.
What is the measurable cost of depriving isolated citizens of access to metropolitan resources? How much are we willing to pay for a good society?
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...
Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.
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...