This June 4th, the 36th anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, passed quietly in the People’s Republic of China. Of course, the atrocity could not be mentioned, let alone debated, in the PRC. The Chinese Communist Party…

During the Cold War against the Soviet Union, especially during its final two decades, many liberals became “useful idiots” who believed Soviet leaders had abandoned communism and the goal of global hegemony. These were not the “political pilgrims” (Paul Hollander’s…