I taught mathematics at the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB) near Caracas from 1973 to 1975 and returned to teach summer classes in 2005 and again in 2008. My wife and I honeymooned in Venezuela in 1977. That doesn’t make me…
It has become a custom of mine, each year towards the end of June, to attend a daylily flower show organized by the local branch of the American Hemerocallis Society. Arrayed before the visitor, on these charming occasions, are row…
Nayib Bukele has become something of a darling for American right-wingers, and not without good reason. The youthful, eloquent 42-year-old president of El Salvador has made a name for himself in his stunningly successful war against his nation’s murderous cartels…
It was during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, so the story goes, that a maiden from Hangzhou, a certain Lady Li, elegant and lithesome with her dark eyebrows lightly curved like the leaves of a weeping willow, ventured…
Most conservative women, if asked about the first wave of feminism, would voice general approval. It is seen as a rather pure approach to women’s issues, focused on protecting women and advancing political participation. Feminism’s problems, we have been led…
Russia has been secretly backing a Catalan separatist movement which conducted an illegal referendum some years ago and is now key for maintaining Spain’s socialists in power, according to Spanish authorities investigating activities in Spain’s northeast region by Russian intelligence…
Argentine President Javier Milei once again showed that he enters the world stage not as Donald Trump’s epigone but instead as the role model that Trump and other world leaders should follow. “We are here to tell you that collectivist…
Nearly two millennia ago, some of the earliest followers of Christ in Jerusalem arranged their affairs in a way that still prompts the claim that Christianity’s roots are socialist, communal, or even “communist.” When we celebrate the birth of Jesus…
Author’s Note: My just-published book, Up From Socialism: My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics (Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press), devotes hundreds of pages to lovingly describing and subtly critiquing the inner life of “idealistic” leftist organizations, and the…
