Who belongs in history’s Hall of Evil? Paul Kengor partnered with PragerU to do a series highlighting his top 6 picks: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot. They all have one big thing…
Prager University has teamed up with The American Spectator’s editor, Paul Kengor, for a special six-part video series on history’s worst dictators. The “Hall of Evil” series launched on Feb. 3 with the first installment on Bolshevik dictator Vladimir Lenin (click…
It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top article advertised on the magazine’s cover. It is, unfortunately, unknown to most Americans, but it was one of…
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism By Sean McMeekin (Basic Books, 544 pages, $27) “Political power” — Communist political power — does, as Chairman Mao said, grow “out of the barrel of a gun.”…
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…
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…
Wars, especially unpopular wars, breed revolutions. And revolutions are unpredictable. News reports indicate that the Wagner Group mercenaries under the leadership of Yevgeny Prigozhin took control of military headquarters in Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don, and are headed toward Moscow in an…
In searching for, in the words of Mark Twain, history’s rhymes, the Biden administration’s strategy to combat anti-Semitism, unveiled May 25 to enthusiastic applause, shares a seminal stanza with the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, who sought to…
International Women’s Day is already a farce, and Joe Biden just made it a bigger one. He has turned it into a spectacle. As readers of my column have learned over the years, International Women’s Day is a literal socialist…
