President Emmanuel Macron in 2017 became the first head of state in France to call anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism. In January, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said BDS is “unacceptable” because it is “often linked” to the discrimination of Jews. ..…

Coincidentally, Hayek published this denial of being an anti-state purist around the same time that a new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was telling her cabinet colleagues that Hayek’s 1944 book The Road to Serfdom should be compulsory reading. ..…

U Nu, the first elected prime minister of Burma.. 357... On this day in 1952, U Nu, the chairman of Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, was elected prime minister following Burma's first election since independence. ..…