Since the fall of 1917, when Lenin seized power in Russia, the evils of communism have been exposed by courageous witnesses, some of whom emerged from “penal” and forced labor camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn described as the essence of communism….
Karl Marx’s walk with the devil explains a lot about the evil ideology he unleashed on the world. Paul Kengor illuminates the extent of Marx’s dark background in The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and…
We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. — W.H. Auden, “The Age of Anxiety” (1948) The persistence of pro-Kremlin sentiments on…
Let it be admitted that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was consequential. One of the most consequential people in history. He was essential to the Bolshevik Revolution, which overthrew the feckless liberals and socialists who had ousted the tsar. He led the…
There were seven. Seven figures above all, with varying influences, some more intentional than others, who brought down the Berlin Wall, freed Eastern Europe from communism, took down the Soviet Union, and peacefully ended the Cold War. They were Ronald…
Is the Chinese Communist Party guiding “progressive” groups in the United States to push CCP propaganda and anti-Semitism? That’s what the New York Times alleges in a recent bombshell investigation. Here’s what you need to know, what the Times missed,…
Imagine my surprise upon learning, contrary to popular belief and received opinion, that the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle never existed. The vast Corpus Aristotelicum, including the Metaphysics, the Politics, the Poetics, and the Nicomachean Ethics — all medieval forgeries. Aristotle’s…
A century ago, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who kept his underground nom de guerre, Lenin, had achieved all that a revolutionary could wish. After his Bolshevik Party seized power he was the most important person in the Soviet Union. Then he…
Some conservatives, most prominently Vivek Ramaswamy, think the United States can flip Russia from foe to friend and end the Ukraine war. Ramaswamy has promised he would break up the Russia-China alliance — a nifty reversal of Nixon-to-China. It will…
