America's Ideological Temptation

by R. R. Reno

The West has adopted aspects of the old Kremlin mentality. Continue Reading »

1 Sep 2022 0

Russia, Ukraine, and Moral Reckoning

by George Weigel

Putin is conducting a carefully orchestrated campaign to reverse history’s verdict in the Cold War and subjugate the now-independent former “republics” of the old Soviet Union. Continue Reading »

26 Jan 2022 0

Death of a Spy

by John Wilson

In memory of the spy and novelist John le Carré. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2020 0

Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable

by John Wilson

I find that most younger readers today, while recognizing Solzhenitsyn's name, have never read him. Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2020 0

The Cooler Cold War

by George Weigel

Unlike his predecessors, Putin’s propaganda is designed not to promote Russia, but demoralize The West. Continue Reading »

19 Jul 2017 0

The Realism We Need

by Edward Lucas

What Hitchens fails to spot is that the Soviet Union was not just about Communism, or about Russia. It was an empire. One hundred twenty million-plus of the Soviet Union’s two hundred eighty-six-million population were non-Russians. Almost none of them were Soviet by choice, any more than the one hundred million people in the other Warsaw Pact countries wanted to be under Soviet tutelage. To view the collapse of the evil empire solely from a Russian point of view is therefore misleading. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2016 0

Beyond Cuba and Castro

by R. R. Reno

Thawing relations with Cuba was the right thing to do. We’re a long, long way from the early 1960s when Cuba was a Soviet satellite and the prospect of nuclear missiles ninety miles from Miami posed a direct threat to our national security. We’re also a long way from the 1970s when Cuba was trying to export revolution to Angola and elsewhere. Fidel Castro is dying. His Marxist dream has been dying for more than twenty years. There’s nothing about Cuba in 2014 that poses a risk to American interests. Continue Reading »

22 Dec 2014 0

Ronald Reagan: Cold Warrior and Nuclear Abolitionist

by George Weigel

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons. And while many, in his time and ours, imagine those to have been incompatible goals, the fortieth president of the United States was capable of holding both ideas in his head at once, and acting toward both ends. Continue Reading »

30 Jul 2014 0