Over the last 200 years, Liberalism has been a stunning success story. It brought forward liberty and prosperity for the many instead of privileges for the few. Yet, today liberal thinking and liberal politics are under siege. To regain public support, they need a profound update, offering convincing answers to the major challenges our societies...
by Rick Locker October 15, 2019 N/E Knox County, On the Grow A 20-person delegation of Germans and Americans working in education and economic and workforce development visited Pellissippi State Community College and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Knoxville as part of the American Council on Germany’s initiative, “Transatlantic Cities of Tomorrow: Digitalization and the Future...
The fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t start in Berlin in November 1989. It started months earlier … in places like Turkey, Poland, and Hungary. In 1989, The Wall Street Journal/Europe’s editorial page, where I worked, was uniquely positioned to cover the events that unfolded in that period. Our editor, Seth Lipsky, had been based...
Dr. Cornelius Adebahr, Political Analyst and Nonresident Fellow at Carnegie Europe, shared his talking points for his opening remarks during his recent tour of Warburg Chapters across the United States. These days in Brussels, there is a minor disruption going on amid the wider, global unrest. Following the European election in May and the constitution...
In the early 1960s, Dr. Helga Haftendorn, leading female expert on security policy, sat at the table with an exclusive study group, only to be asked by its chairman: “What is the Fräulein doing there?”[1] Once it had been established that Dr. Haftendorn was indeed an expert she was accepted to remain at the table...
