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Letter from Bulgaria
Even well-educated Americans have trouble locating Bulgaria on the map, and few have any idea what kind of a country it is as I learned recently when I mentioned my forthcoming trip to friends. My mid-October visit was occasioned by a Liberty Fund conference in Sofia on “Liberty, Violence, and the State.” In addition, I undertook to give a few lectures at various Bulgarian universities sponsored by the Speakers’ Program of the State Department. This was my second visit to Bulgaria; the first took place two years ago and was confined to Sofia. This time I had a chance to visit Varna, a sizeable city on the Black Sea where I gave a lecture a ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 31 December 2012, on page 51 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/A-precarious-juncture-7507
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