When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Soviet Communism (New York Times Books)
Jahane Rumi (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
I am posting Shivani Mohan’s article where I have been quoted with reference to the recent folklore festival held under the aegis of SAARC This fortnight saw the 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. So liberating and decisive, when a vast multitude of people chose to see sense and forget trifles that [...]
Tenerife News Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
In 1959, just fifty years ago, I was in Berlin with the British Army. The infamous wall had not yet been built round the whole city, which was divided into four sectors, Russian, American, French and British.
No Caption Needed (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week we feature a CBS report that celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall by drawsing upon the work and reminiscences of photojournalist (and longtime friend of NCN) Peter Turnley. Click on the image to view the video, or click here to read his column on the fall of the Wall [...]
Iowa Progress (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Kent Sorenson, who is running against Staci Appel in Senate District 37, is touting that he had Ron Paul appear at a fundraiser. But what he didn’t mention is Ron Paul thinks that fall of the Berlin Wall was a bad thing. Two weeks ago, Ron Paul voted against a resolution that celebrated the fall [...]
FIRE (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
As I already noted , last week, the Campus Freedom Network received a Templeton Freedom Award for Student Outreach in a special ceremony at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation Freedom Conference. Brandon, Greg, and I were in attendance. Greg sat on a panel the morning of November 9 with think tank leaders from around the world to discuss "Engaging the Next Generation in the Project of Advancing...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Talk about bad taste... The November issue of easyJet In-flight contained two pictures of models posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Field of Stelae. The memorial is Germany's most prominent monument to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. The pictures accompanied a feature marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Denis MacShane,...
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
On our eminently unqualified president:Along with his choreographic gaucherie goes his peculiar belief that all of human history is just a bit of colorful backstory in the Barack Obama biopic — or as he put it in his video address on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:“Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
M y radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama “doesn’t know how to be president.” It was a low but effective crack and I didn’t pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true. I don’t just mean social lapses like his latest cringe-making bow, this time to Their Imperial...
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
National Security Archive - Secret messages from senior Soviet officials to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl after the fall of the Berlin Wall led directly to Kohl's famous "10 Points" speech on German unification, but the speech produced shock in both Moscow and Washington, according to documents from Soviet, German and American files posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive....
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite the release of dozens of emails between British climatologists discussing how to fudge their data to keep the myth of global warming alive, the New York Times chooses to keep the faith, albeit blindly: The documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists. But the evidence pointing to a growing human contribution...
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 7th was the anniversary of the Russian proletarian revolution of 1917, while November 9th marked the 20th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Both were key events in the history of the 20th century, particularly those of socialist endeavors. In Cuba, though its last 50 years have corresponded to the first socialist initiative in the Americas, paradoxically there have been very few recent...
The Third Estate (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guest post by Carl Packman In my opinion, that famous neo-Hegelian thinker Francis Fukuyama – the man responsible for the predication in the late eighties/early nineties that at the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end-of-history had loomed upon us, and it had shown free-market capitalism to be the victor over socialism – has gone from [...] Related posts: We need to talk about the future of...
Sepia Mutiny (Free subscription) | yesterday
W hile on the topic of why India didn't liberalize sooner , an article posted to the SM's News column points at one important factor. In his "Letter from India" column in the NYT, Akash Kapur reflects on the 20 yr anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the impact it had on India - Most of the media coverage has, quite understandably, focused on Europe. But the tremors from Communism's...
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hitchcock could not have done better (or am I thinking of Mel Brooks'). Last week, on November 9 to be exact, Europeans, amidst much hypocritical hoopla, celebrated the "fall" of the Berlin Wall, an event of great importance only to those who had been sequestered behind the wall, and those for whom Communism (and its current incarnation - anti-racism) represent a major nefarious and limiting...
Some landscapes (Free subscription) | yesterday
The best landscape art book of 2009? Possibly the new edition of Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner, first published in 1990. Written in three parts, the first, 'Romanticizing the World', begins by addressing the reader directly as "you" and imagines an encounter with Friedrich's Trees and Bushes in the Snow (1828), and the last discusses Friedrich's...
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