Three decades ago Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev made a long-overdue admission. He signed a decree to accelerate rehabilitation of Joseph…
Almost every people’s democracy, which used to fill Eastern Europe, faced that embarrassing moment when workers dramatically demonstrated that they…
I used to enjoy skewering the Washington Post with what I believed to be a biting satire of the Swiftian…
World War II created untold carnage around the globe. The injustice, the tragedy, and the horror as a tsunami of…
Introduction: With the Cold War still raging, I joined a group of 10 American specialists on the Middle East and…
“That wasn’t real socialism.” “I want democratic socialism, not authoritarian socialism.” “Capitalism is an archaic system.” If you know a politically active young…
Vladimir Nabokov in Context Edited by David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank (Cambridge University Press, 334 pages, $79.81) The late…
An examination of human migration patterns over the past several thousand years demonstrates one fundamental truth: People seek places where…
This past week the 70th anniversary of the CIA passed without much fanfare, strikingly in-line with the clandestine nature of…
In 1985 I spent 13 days in Russia — then officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), but which…
