Archive | February 6, 2014

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Leipzig Church Memories: Socialism’s Forgotten Toll

The New York Review of Books posted this great painting by Mendelssohn of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. I wrote about that seeing that church in Public Policy Hooligan – and in a 1987 New York Times article on how socialism was ruining the East Bloc. Here’s the riff from Hooligan – from a jaunt […]

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