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...
Size and homogeneity are of course not transferable. There is no way for India or the USA to become Austria or Norway, and in their purest form the social democratic welfare states of Europe are simpl...
Schopnost evokovat Hitlera, Osvětim nebo Mnichov má své přednosti: alespoň se tak současnost dovolává minulosti, místo aby ji zcela ignorovala. Dnes to činíme amatérsky a stále více způsobem, kterým s...
One striking consequence of the disintegration of the public sector has been an increased difficulty in comprehending what we have in common with others.
Nothing, of course, is ever quite as good as we remember. The social democratic consensus and the welfare institutions of the postwar decades coincided with some of the worst town planning and public...
The only democracies left in continental Europe were the tiny neutral states of Sweden and Switzerland, both dependent on German goodwill.
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our...
Two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life.
Place of the male proletariat there were now posited the candidacies of ‘blacks’, ‘students’, ‘women’ and, a little later, homosexuals. Since none of these constituents, at home or abroad, was separat...
The more equal a society, the greater the trust. And it is not just a question of income: where people have similar lives and similar prospects, it is likely that what we might call their ‘moral outlo...
The kind of society where trust is widespread is likely to be fairly compact and quite homogenous.
The Scandinavian model followed a more selective but also more ambitious program: its goal, as articulated by the influential Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, was to institutionalize the state’s res...
The European dilemma is
That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.
Shanghai—the term denotes people who have gathered together into affluent subdivisions of suburbs and cities and fondly suppose themselves functionally independent of the rest of society.
Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live. —KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI
Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
He [Gorbachev] did initially oppose the absorption of a united Germany into NATO; and even after conceding the point in principle* continued to insist that NATO troops not be allowed to move 300 kilom...
Inequality, then, is not just unattractive in itself; it clearly corresponds to pathological social problems that we cannot hope to address unless we attend to their underlying cause. There is a reaso...
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