“We win, they lose.” That Reagan statement was a declaration for the ages, a denouement to the 20th century, encapsulating what Ronald Reagan did to defeat the Soviet Union and win the Cold War. There’s nary a Reaganite who doesn’t know…
On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the Chair of St. Peter. Wojtyla took the name Pope John Paul II, having succeeded John Paul I, who died…
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.”…
Ronald Reagan made me a conservative. This is of little historical note compared to destroying the Soviet Union, uplifting the economy, and restoring American optimism from malaise, but Reagan changed my life for the better. My political transformation occurred on…
The critics have been unmerciful in their reviews of the movie Reagan which features Dennis Quaid in the titular role. Inspired by The American Spectator editor Paul Kengor’s book The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, the film…
Since the fall of 1917, when Lenin seized power in Russia, the evils of communism have been exposed by courageous witnesses, some of whom emerged from “penal” and forced labor camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn described as the essence of communism….
We Win They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War By Matthew Kroenig & Dan Negrea (Republic Book Publishers, 220 pages, $25) In January 1977, Richard V. Allen, who would eventually become President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor,…
The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall By Josiah Bunting III (Alfred A. Knopf, 245 pages, $30) At a time when the United States Military Academy removed “duty, honor, country” from its mission statement in…
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…
