The Indomitable Natalia Gorbanevskaya
A noble voice of the Soviet dissident movement passes from the stage.
Defying Evil: Albert Camus and His Century
Born a century ago on November 7, 1913 — a titan who diagnosed the malady of our times.
Breaking Myths: The Ideas that Ruined Bolshevism
A powerful new book dissects the symbolic matrix of Gorbachev’s revolution.
Stalin, Putin, and the Challenges of Memory
The high price of denial.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Paradigmatic Zek
Remembering the dissident who lit moral dynamite under the Soviet myth.
The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 45 Years Later
The socialism that came in from the cold.
A Passion for Truth: In Memoriam Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)
A titan who knew that refusal to act against evil inevitably leads to acquiescence and complicity with it.
Betrayed Illusions: The Left and the Jews
How Bolshevik internationalism degenerated into vicious anti-Semitism.
The Politics of Resentment
How utopian fanaticism remains a main feature of our times.
Why Kolakowski Matters
A reflection on one of the noblest apostates in the history of ideas.
Hannah Arendt and the Catastrophes of the 20th Century
A new film brings to life the persona of the much-debated philosopher.
Premises of Liberty: In Memoriam Kenneth Minogue (1930-2013)
A reflection on a towering nemesis to all those magnetized by the utopian lie.
The Red Fascism of Colonel Chavez
Why the Venezuelan comandante was the real successor of Stalin and Hitler.
Truth, Memory, Dignity: Why Does Monica Lovinescu Matter?
Remembering one of the most important figures of the Eastern and Central European anti-totalitarian thought.
Ideological Sociopath: Stalin Reads Machiavelli
The consequences of considering vice a virtue.
Back to Lenin? Bolshevism as Barbarism
The hymns honoring the architect of a criminal system that exterminated millions continue.
The Virtue of Lucidity: Yuri Glazov and the Fate of Communism
A Soviet dissident’s account of totalitarianism’s haunting infiltration of the Russian psyche.