Posts Tagged ‘Communism’
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Let’s Move On from the Cold War
Posted on July 28, 2016
I wrote one of my most popular blog posts five years ago. I titled it, “Collapse of the Cold War Consensus.” Here is an excerpt: It took a while, but...
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Two Reminders of What Communism Looks Like
Posted on December 18, 2014
“I have seen the future and it is now,” the famous Soviet apologist Lincoln Steffens once wrote about the Russian revolution. He turned out to be wrong, but I betcha...
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Remembering a D-Day Anniversary
Posted on June 6, 2014
We were in Paris, having a couple of pints at the Harry’s American Bar, when we heard the news. Ronald Reagan had died....
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Reunion
Posted on August 1, 2011
As we were driving back from the airport, my 5-year old son Jack asked me, “Daddy, what’s the debt limit?” We had just flown in from Chicago. I had dropped...
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Rising to the Challenge?
Posted on April 30, 2010
In 1893, Chicago hosted the World’s Fair, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in America. Designed by Daniel Burnham, the man who said, “Make no little plans,...
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