Celebrating a Conservative Fourth of July
I am in Berlin, Germany. Independence Day carries the weight of America’s role in defeating Stalinism and Soviet Communism in continental Europe. With the disturbing rise of mainstr...
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Europe Needs Greece
The Greek debt crisis has become so complicated that we now have digests and timelines to guide us through the saga. In this spirit, the Bertelsmann Foundation recently released an infographic de...
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Who is IS?
Who are they anyway? IS, the Islamic State, that is. There are two big components: religious fanatics and totalitarian leaders. The secret of IS’ success lies in combin...
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Transformational Diplomacy
Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...
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A Shocking Exposé of the Power Behind North Korea’s Kim Dictatorship
The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...
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Know Your Enemy
In the summer of 2008, Barack Obama, senator and presidential candidate, toured the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama had endeared himself to the antiwar left by denouncing President Bush’s d...
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Syria: The Spanish Civil War All Over Again
History may not quite repeat itself, but the war in Syria — invariably, “the Syrian Civil War” — is eerily similar to the “Spanish Civil War” in the mid-1930s....
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Oliver Stone’s Party Line
Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.
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Return of the Czech Communists
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
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Wrong Way Down the Danube
How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe
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European Profligacy
In his 1992 book The Culture of Contentment John Kenneth Galbraith said the cyclical failure of political systems to recognise and adapt to paradigm shifts was caused by...
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Hungary’s Pit Bull Prime Minister
How one of Europe’s most celebrated anti-communists become the bad boy of the continent.
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What’s Islam Got to Do with It?
To prohibit the question is to invite disaster.
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Belarus, the Land of No Applause
Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...
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Carter’s Confusion
Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s...
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The Guardian’s Spin on the Palestine Papers
If I may highlight one more thing regarding Noah Pollak’s excellent take-down of the “Palestine Papers” that the Guardian and Al Jazeera leaked to the public over the weekend, t...
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China: The First Mature Fascist State
In 2002, I speculated that China may be something we have never seen before: a mature fascist state. Recent events there, especially the mass rage in response to Western criticism, seem to confir...
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Canada Stands Up to Iran
Last week, Canada’s Free Thinking Film Society — love that name — was scheduled to screen Iranium, a new documentary about the regime that has ruled Iran since 1979, its d...
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German Left Party Seeks to Reintroduce Stalinism
“We can only find the ways to communism if we get started and try them out, whether in the opposition or in the government,” Gesine Lötzsch, co-president of the German Left Party...
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The Iranian Death Spiral Speeds Up
The picturesque city of Chabahar is right on the Gulf of Oman , and was supposed to become Iran's biggest and mos...