1917–23 transition from monarchy to USSR
Jared Whitley writes at Townhall.com about a pending update of one of George Orwell’s most famous books. It was reported recently that Hollywood is making a new animated version of…
Nate Hochman of National Review Online takes MSNBC host Joy Reid up on her offer to explain Marxism “like I’m five.” Well, let’s see. Marxist theory prescribes a violent revolution…
Nicholas Kaster writes for the American Thinker about an 80-year-old literary classic that offers timely lessons. Darkness at Noon, published in December 1940, stands as one of the most penetrating…
Arthur Herman reflects at National Review Online on the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s overthrow of the Russian republic. The next day, November 8, Lenin installed himself and his Marxist…
People who wear Guy Fawkes masks often like to spout a little poem about remembering the fifth of November. That’s the date of the foiled Gunpowder Plot that was designed…
Douglas Murray uses a National Review Online column to evaluate the ongoing impact of one of history’s most destructive events. [W]herever you turn in the world today, it seems that…
Those who’ve read Charles Murray’s book Coming Apart will recall a key theme: the decreasing likelihood that the affluent and members of the working class will interact regularly in their…
Pay for performance is likely to lead to better public school teachers, and former FDIC chair Sheila Bair writes in the latest Fortune magazine that the same principle might work…
Historian Niall Ferguson uses his latest Newsweek column to urge caution among those who foresee good results from the latest round of regime change in one of the world’s hot…
Yesterday’s News and Observer reviews a new restaurant in Durham called The Cuban Revolution. The reviewer, Greg Cox, points out, in a way that suggests it is somehow charming, that…
I had occasion today to read Woodrow Wilson’s “Safe for Democracy” speech, as quoted in Michael Waldman’s My Fellow Americans (Sourcebooks, 2003). The man who would later push for the…
The Chapel Hill indymedia types are busy ignoring freedom coming to the Ukraine and Iraq by gazing wistfully southward toward the Castro beneath Castro, Hugo Chavez. Here is their new…