ANDREW KLAVAN: REALITY HAS A VOICE. “I remember sitting on the edge of my bed that day, staring thunderstruck at the television screen as East Germans, brutalized by socialism, yearning to be free, dismantled the central symbol of the Cold War. I remember thinking: ‘I’ll be damned. That old b*****d Reagan was right about everything.’ And I began to change my mind. Because… reality.”

I remember thinking the same thing back in the 1980s about tax cuts igniting the stock market, which Business Week had dubbed “dead” in 1979. Read the whole thing.