Berlin Wall

Here's what our writers and editors are reading this week.Bradley J. Birzer, scholar-at-large: The most important book to hit the stands over the last quarter year is Marcus Witcher’s astounding, penetrating, and insightful re-examination of the 40th president and his legacy, Getting Right With Reagan: The Struggle for True Conservatism,…

Last November, I went to Paris to meet Jean Michel Othoniel in his beautiful studio in Le Marais. As soon as you step inside the studio, you already feel a peaceful creative atmosphere. Around the world, the French artist is well known for his giant installations of colored glass pearls. Born in 1964…

From a classic fairy tale to the life of a pig, this year's refurbished Berlin programming didn't disappoint. This year’s Berlin International Film Festival brought a lot of anticipation. The first edition assembled by artistic director Carlo Chatrian and executive director Mariette Rissenbeek required the team to push back on…

With politicians proposing policies that would vastly expand the size of the government and its involvement in the economy, it is clear that too many Americans have forgotten the lessons of the twentieth century. As Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman pointed out long ago, deviating from market principles is a…

Bernie Sanders is expanding his lead in the 2020 primary field among young Democrats, according to the latest Forbes Under 30 Voter Survey, which surveyed more than 1,000 likely voters ages 18 to 29 after Saturday’s Nevada caucus and before Tuesday’s South Carolina debate. Sanders is the top choice of…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you've ever sat in the cool shade of a tree on a hot summer day, you already know that shaded areas are cooler than open fields. But is that kind of cooling enough to make a difference in the hotter world of the future? When…

Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday March 15, 2020 at 10:03 pm BERLIN  — Berlin is freezing the rents of 1.5 million apartments for the next five years starting this Sunday in a controversial move to control the exploding costs that have forced many to move outside Germany’s capital…

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Wolfgang Tillmans, “Outside Snax Club” (2001) (image by Wolfgang Tillmans, courtesy David Zwirner, New York, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Maureen Paley, London)Berlin nightclubs disappearing due to gentrification has become so common that Germans have come up with a word for the phenomenon: clubsterben, or “club death.” Pushed out by property developers…

Rob Long has been a writer and co-executive producer of the classic sitcom Cheers and other TV shows. A liberal who voted for Walter Mondale back in 1984, he became a conservative after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union and started writing for National Review in…