There were seven. Seven figures above all, with varying influences, some more intentional than others, who brought down the Berlin Wall, freed Eastern Europe from communism, took down the Soviet Union, and peacefully ended the Cold War. They were Ronald…

Savile Row, located in central London, was once the home of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). Lord Curzon described the building as “cramped and rather squalid,” but on January 25, 1904, the audience heard a paper read by Halford Mackinder…

Critics of U.S. support for Ukraine can be found on both the left and the right, but, despite their opposing perspectives, most of them agree on one thing: The war in Ukraine, in their view, has become a proxy war…

Obviously the group calling itself the communist “Revolution Club Chicago” thinks the American people are stupid. Here is the New York Post headline about the group’s recent appearance at a parking lot at a Jason Aldean concert: Communist revolutionaries set…

Aug. 15, 2023 — Another day, another cosmic horror courtesy of the so-called “Russian world.” The setting this time is Velikiye Luki, the second-largest town in Pskov Oblast, where a solemn ceremony is being held on the sprawling grounds of…

Much is being said right now about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The reason, of course, is the new film on Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. The film has opened old debates and wounds about Oppenheimer’s communist…

March 8 marks the 40th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida,” better known as the “Evil Empire” speech. This tour de force must be remembered and understood…

The Biden administration just released its 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS), which identifies two principal strategic challenges: competition between democracies and autocracies (i.e., Russia and China) and cooperation to address “shared challenges” (climate change, arms control, food insecurity, global health…

News that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91 has produced the expected encomiums from Western media outlets. The Economist calls him “the architect of [the Soviet Union’s] dissolution.” CNN says he “took down the Iron Curtain.”…

When I heard about the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, I sighed. He was one of the final remaining pivotal figures in the end of the Cold War: Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, Boris Yeltsin,…