Link Archipelago: Fall of the Wall Edition
2009 November 9
- The Arts & Letters Daily has a brilliant round up. Highlights include Christopher Hitchens, Anne Applebaum, Matt Welch, and Lech Walesa.
- “In the stores old ladies yelled and swung their brooms at me.”–Tyler Cowen on his visit to Berlin in 1985. “My biggest impression was simply that I had never seen evil before.”
- Dan Hannan draws some lessons from the Fall. These are applicable to the 21st century as well: permanence is the illusion of every age and revolutions come unexpectedly.
- Lester Hunt on whether fascism is worse than communism.
- Jesus Jones sings Right Here Right Now while watching the world wake up from history.
- From the Onion: “I recall it was really touching when the East German government bureaucrats were tearfully reunited with the West German government bureaucrats.”
- Here, our own Michael Strong posts on Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and Patri Friedman on Seasteading And The Wall Of Dirt.
