Two parts quoted almost in full – I completely agree with this:
The conventional interpretation of the Wall: Socialism, a movement that began with wide-eyed idealism, was gradually corrupted. The first socialists dreamed of freeing the common man; but once their intellectual heirs were drunk on absolute power, they ended [...]
In September, Tyler Cowen picked Berlin as his “preferred exile”:
There would be plenty of art and music, lots of smart people to talk to, access to other good locales, and the near-certainty of public order, yet with bearable winters and good health care.
Today, on the 20th anniversary of the [...]
