Kissinger: Allende More Dangerous Than Castro
By coincidence, Greg Grandin has a piece on Allende and Chile in the new issue of the London Review of Books. It sets out very clearly why so many on the right saw Allende as such a profound threat....
View ArticleWhen Hayek Met Pinochet
In case you missed my five-part series on Hayek in Chile, here are the links: Hayek von Pinochet: In which we learn what our protagonist had to say about one of history’s tyrants. But wait, there’s...
View ArticleIf Reagan Were Pinochet…Sigh
While I have your attention, I want to highlight two dimensions of that 1981 Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) meeting in Pinochet’s Chile that Hayek helped organize. You can read about the whole affair here:...
View ArticleIt’s 9/11. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is?
Readers who grew up in the New York area in the 70s will remember the “It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?” tagline. Well, it’s 9/11, the 40th anniversary of the coup that overthrew...
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