January, 2006

Coming in February: Is Old Europe Doomed?

Stay tuned for details about Cato Unbound’s February issue: “Is Old Europe Doomed?” featuring essays and commentary by:
Theodore Dalrymple, celebrated essayist and author of Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses;
Charles Kupchan, professor or international relations at Georgetown University and author of The End of the American Era : U.S. [...]

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Wrapping Up: Internet Liberation

Thanks to this month’s essayists for such a stimulating and wide-ranging conversation.
The discussion, you may have noticed, took some unpredictable turns, and this fact has something to teach us about this month’s theme. The Internet has become part of the basic structure of our society, economy, and lives, and a discussion about the Internet is [...]

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Honest Mistakes

by Jaron Lanier

January 25th, 2006

This last turn of the conversation towards an examination of Jews and the Left is too annoying to pass without comment.
To state the obvious: Jews were an oppressed minority in Europe. And as it happens we were also a hyperactively bookish minority. Marxism and related ideas were new, and it [...]

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