The commie Chinese spy balloon provided Americans with a week of intrigue and amusement, not to mention frustration and bewilderment over how our China-friendly president might respond. By last Friday, the damned thing was floating somewhere over the Midwest, cruising…
We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced labor camps for both political…
There is only one man on Earth who holds sway over Vladimir Putin, the rogue, isolated president of the Russian Federation who has fractured Europe in a way not seen since Adolf Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, after…
What do Vladimir Putin and International Women’s Day have in common? Both were promoted by the KGB. All good jokes contain an element of truth. And there’s nothing not true about that one. Every year going back a century, communists…
The news of P.J. O’Rourke’s death this week was like a gut-punch. I learned about it on Wednesday morning, courtesy of American Spectator executive editor Wlady Pleszczynski’s touching tribute. Thoughts of P.J. took me back, as it should all of…
In the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, Tufts University political science professor Michael Beckley argues that fear of China is forging a new world order that can be based on collective action by the world’s democracies, but only if those…
China is both a land and sea power, which makes containing it harder than it was to contain the largely landlocked Soviet Union. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stretches across the Eurasian landmass into Central Asia and Europe, while…
The term “mansion Marxist” is an oldie and a goodie. It’s right up there with “limousine leftist,” but richer (pun intended) because it denotes an especially outrageous kind of left-wing hypocrite: For instance, the Soviet party apparatchik basking in the…
It’s lonely at the top, doubly so when you have the kind of power and responsibility that only an autocrat can attain. Yet Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, arguably the world’s two most powerful men (Joe Biden is barely in…
