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The Servile Temptation -- By: Peter Robinson

According to Tocqueville, the dominant mood within liberal commercial societies where there is a modicum of actual equality is inquietude – anxiety, a sense of not knowing what to do, of feeling just a little bit lost.  When we’re feeling anxious, ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  24 Nov 2009

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Slouching Toward Despotism -- By: Peter Robinson

Soft despotism comes, Tocqueville thinks, when very gradually within a liberal democratic polity the government offers a helping hand to people.  It’s always welcome.  Businessmen who argue against government interference in the economy are always ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  23 Nov 2009

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Review: Blood's a Rover, by James Ellroy

Weighing in at more than 600 pages, Blood's a Rover is a daunting and ambitious novel. Given the short chapters, short paragraphs and short sentences, one would expect a fast-paced read, but that is not the case. Blood's a Rover is a slow read, partly ...

From PETER ROBINSON, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Ellroy,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Wells Fargo,  Robert F. Kennedy,  J. Edgar Hoover

Politically Incorrect with Vaclav Klaus -- By: Peter Robinson

The first post-communist decade was a very positive decade. The second is much worse. We are, all of us, reintroducing socialism, reintroducing government intervention in all fields. It is not mostly because of social policy ideas, but is because of ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  13 Nov 2009

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The Story of the Berlin Wall Address -- By: Peter Robinson

In an otherwise marvelous piece on the Berlin Wall address that appeared in the Wall Street Journal this past Monday, Anthony Dolan, my old boss in the Reagan speechwriting shop, got the sequence of events mixed up.  If by now you've had it up to here ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  12 Nov 2009

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The Free-Marketeer -- By: Peter Robinson

Today on Uncommon Knowledge, President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic. Although he earned his doctorate in economics under a Communist regime, he became a stalwart of free markets. How?              Paradoxically, as a graduate student [my job was] ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter Robinson,  Vaclav Klaus,  Milton Friedman,  Gary Becker

Commies and Greenies -- By: Peter Robinson

Communism and environmentalism—we are talking about two ideologies that are structurally very similar. They are against individual freedom.  They are in favor of centralist master-minding of our fates.  They are both very similar in telling us what to ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  11 Nov 2009

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What the President of the Czech Republic Dislikes About Europe -- By: Peter Robinson

At the beginning, the European integration process was a positive idea. Opening up, liberalizing trade, removing barriers and borders of individual countries, allowing free movement not only of goods and services, but of people, ideas and culture ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  10 Nov 2009

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What the Wall Looked Like From the Other Side -- By: Peter Robinson

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic. The state of Communism in Eastern Europe when the wall came down twenty years ago? Rotten, rotten, rotten. An eyewitness account by the dissident who is now the leader of ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  10 Nov 2009

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Why the Mullahs Have Not Fallen -- By: Peter Robinson

Yesterday on Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson and Robert Baer agreed that Iran would very soon possess nuclear weapons. Today they consider the nature of the Iranian regime. Soon enough, the mullahs and Ahmadinejad will have their finger on the ...

From PETER ROBINSON, The Corner,  27 Oct 2009

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