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China's New Leftist

with Milton Friedmanvia New York Times
Sunday, October 15, 2006

One day earlier this year I met Wang Hui at the Thinker’s Cafe near Tsinghua University in Bejing, where he teaches…

In the News

Revisiting a Tear in the Iron Curtain: Hungary

with Hoover Institutionvia Stanford Review
Friday, October 13, 2006

On September 19, the Hoover Institution held a reception announcing the opening of a new exhibit called “A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Hungarian Uprising of 1956” to commemorate the affair’s 50th anniversary...

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Ahem, Korea? The Nuke Thing? Unacceptable.

with George P. Shultzvia Hoover Daily Report
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The war of words exploded across the planet yesterday as condemnations and veiled threats rained down on newly nuclear North Korea...

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Letter to the Editor: Socialist Capitalism

with Milton Friedmanvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

In regard to Milton Friedman's "Hong Kong Wrong" (editorial page, Oct. 6): Does Mr. Friedman mean that capitalism cannot work outside a democracy...

Analysis and Commentary

The Cold War and an erratic leader's brinkmanship

by Arnold Beichmanvia Washington Times
Sunday, October 8, 2006

In the spring of 1960, Nikita Khrushchev, then ruler of all the Russias, headed the Soviet delegation to the United Nations...

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Remembering a revolution

with Hoover Institutionvia Palo Alto Weekly
Friday, October 6, 2006

There are still walls in Budapest with bullet holes left over from the 1956 revolution...

Analysis and Commentary

Socialism for the rich

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Thursday, October 5, 2006

Although socialism has long claimed to be for the poor, it has probably done more damage, on net balance, to the poor than to the rich...

Analysis and Commentary

Traitors to the Enlightenment

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Monday, October 2, 2006

The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone...

Analysis and Commentary

Empire Falls

by Niall Fergusonvia Vanity Fair
Sunday, October 1, 2006

It was 230 years ago that Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a work conceived, as he put it, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol" in Rome...

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Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism

with Milton Friedmanvia Free Market News Network
Friday, September 29, 2006

Today, September 29, 2006 is the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, economist and social philosopher, who passed away in 1973...

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