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…
In the early 1970s, China was supplying significant military, financial, and logistical assistance to North Vietnam in its war against the United States. China was helping North Vietnamese troops kill American soldiers. Domestically, China was still in the throes of…
What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and 1980s, but not with Vladimir Putin in the second…
On December 11, 2024, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Professor Perry Link of the University of California, Riverside (UCR), revealing his persecution by university leadership for expressing dissenting views. This troubling case sheds light on a broader…
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…
The following account contains graphic descriptions of the deaths of victims of the Cultural Revolution in China. La desvergüenza con que el revolucionario mata espanta más que sus matanzas. (The shamelessness with which the revolutionary kills is more frightening than…
China’s former premier, Li Keqiang, passed away suddenly last Friday at only 68 years of age — the shortest-lived premier in the history of the People’s Republic of China. According to the CCP official announcement, he died of a heart…
China’s State Security Ministry issued a public social mobilization order on Aug. 1 through the Chinese social media platform WeChat entitled “Full-Society Mobilization Needed for Counter-Espionage!” It proclaims the need for “all-around social mobilization against espionage” and urges the entire…
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 John C. McManus (Dutton Caliber, 448 pages, $35) The best historians use hindsight to place events in a clearer perspective than heretofore understood. Military historian…
