Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men.
En palabras de Sartre: «Ser libre no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino en querer hacer lo que uno puede».
I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another—where cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as the normal c...
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 the years following 1945 it seemed to most intelligent observers as though the Austrians had made a simple category error. Like so many of their fellow refugees, they had assumed that the condition...
Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic competition that a participant who breaks the rul...
Mladí důstojníci, s nimiž jsem byl v kontaktu, pocházeli především z metropolí a měst, ne z kibuců, a díky nim jsem pochopil, co jsem měl chápat už dávno: že sen o venkovském socialismu je právě jen s...
Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the wake of World War II.
Namísto abychom veřejně přiznali potřebu určitého společenského vybavení (muzeí, sportovišť, veřejné dopravy), vyhýbáme se nepopulárnímu danění tím, že podobné výdaje kryjeme z loterií – jichž se v di...
Odjet do Španělska bojovat za republiku bylo nesmírně lákavé. Byl to způsob, jak se stát antifašistou, v atraktivním prostředí se zapojit do společnosti čelící velmi prostým dilematům.
Our problem is to work out a social organization which shall be as efficient as possible without offending our notions of a satisfactory way of life. —JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
Over the past thirty years we have thrown all this away.
The democratic failure transcends national boundaries. The embarrassing fiasco of the Copenhagen climate conference of December 2009 is already translating into cynicism and despair among young people...
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despite, or, at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the c...
The most obvious symptom of the change came in the form of ‘planning’.
There were no disagreements in Stalin’s universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin’s virtues and identify his enemies’ crime...
Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.
Dějiny nacismu – a vůbec všech forem totalitarismu – nelze plně pochopit, pokud je omezíme na vyprávění o zlých lidech, kteří se vědomě a záměrně dopouštějí zločinů s cílem páchat zlo
In the arena of economic policy, the citizens of today’s democracies have learned altogether too much modesty. We have been advised that these are matters for experts: that economics and its policy im...
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but al...
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