Bookworm on Aug 20 2008 | Filed under: China, Socialism
As you may recall, I was both impressed and dismayed by the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics. I’ll quote the point I made that comes back again in this post:
They were gorgeous. They also reminded me very strongly of the public spectacles that socialist countries have always loved: vast numbers of people moving in [...]
Bookworm on Jul 22 2008 | Filed under: Europe, France, Socialism
Terry Sater writes about the fact that, coddled by loving euphemisms, Americans are marching headlong into the same dreadful socialist experiment that failed all over Europe — a failure that took place within the lifetime of every single American voter. This is not a case of a few centuries or even decades having dimmed the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 19 2006 | Filed under: Europe, Socialism
The Danube is a very angry river — it's flooding all over the Balkans:
Thousands of people have fled their homes or were facing evacuation in Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania as emergency workers struggled to hold back record floodwaters along the Danube river.
With melting snow and heavy spring rain swelling the river to its highest levels [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2006 | Filed under: Education, France, Socialism
Mike Adams wrote a great column today declaring his independence to act precisely as his students do: rude, careless, and irresponsible, just because it feels good. The reductio ad absurdum of this selfishness, of course, is what’s going on in France, where the students are perfectly happy to see the economy crater rather than to [...]
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