All Posts Tagged With: "East Germany"
An American Stasi?
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported on July 25 that “there are 72 fusion centers around the nation, analyzing and disseminating data and information of all kinds. That is one for every state and others for large urban cities.” What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work for the [...]
22Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 22 comments | ContinuedBerlin, August 1961: An Anniversary We Should Never Forget
[This essay originally appeared in the National Review Online in 2001. ] August marks the anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall that for 28 years thereafter, divided the city of Berlin and closed off the only remaining escape hatch for people in the communist East who wanted freedom in the West. It was [...]
9Nov2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 9 comments | ContinuedGive Me Your Tired
I’m tired. Spending 14 hours in the air going from Athens, Greece, to Frankfurt, Germany, and back home to Phoenix in one day made me very tired. While standing in line at the U.S. Customs Bureau checkpoint, I thought about the words that are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of freedom not [...]
1Feb2002 | David A. Dorn | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomic Freedom and Economic Growth
One of the most enduring questions in economics is what causes economies to grow. The full title of Adam Smith’s well-known treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, clearly shows that the causes of prosperity were Smith’s primary concern. He concluded that free markets, the protection [...]
1Feb1998 | Randall G. Holcombe | 26 comments | ContinuedIf There Were No Capitalism
Mr. Chamberlin is an editorial contributor to the Wall Street Journal. “If there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.” Thus the witty and skeptical Voltaire’s phrase could also be applied to the economic system known as capitalism, often buried with much pomp and circumstance by communist, socialist, and assorted left wing [...]
1Feb1956 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | Continued-
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