Silly Little Country

A Momentous 20th Anniversary

As Matt Welch's short essay observes, there is no single date to attach to this anniversary.

November 1989 was the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history, yet two decades later the country that led the Cold War coalition against communism seems less interested than ever in commemorating, let alone processing the lessons from, the collapse of its longtime foe. At a time that fairly cries out for historical perspective about the follies of central planning, Americans are ignoring the fundamental conflict of the postwar world, and instead leapfrogging back to what Steve Forbes describes in this issue as the “Jurassic Park statism” of the 1930s

It's a great essay. Read the whole thing.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 7:49 AM