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Free-Market Man Ben Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is anachronistic now...
By the time Matisse journeyed to Tahiti in 1930, the transformation was already well underway. While Pacific Islanders had woven pandanus fiber and painted mulberry bark for thousands of years, fashioning ceremonial objects of great spiritual and aesthetic value, these mats and tapa cloths would undergo a revolution with the...
Saddam fancied himself as the new Nasser when he became Iraq's president in 1979, championing the Palestinian cause and fighting a eight-year war to curb Iran's Islamic Revolution. Many countries - including the U.S. - supported Saddam as a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism, which they deemed a greater long...
The traditional answer by some of the best-known historians would be that once you run into the industrial revolution, authorities have no patience with people not working. They felt they had to instill work discipline into the population. So, for example, by the 18th or 19th century, more and...
(2 of 2) But Brown?s importance went beyond movies, or even music. He was a prime pop showman, who brought the notions of melodrama and irony to his performances. You couldn?t help noticing this in the first years of rock ?n roll, the mid- to late 50s, when...