When he was a young social worker in St. Louis, Roger Baldwin was briefly engaged to Anna Louise Strong, who later published more books in defense of the Russian Bolsheviks and Chinese Maoists than any other English-speaking author and ended up buried in a revolutionary martyrs’ cemetery in . . . . Continue Reading »
In 1909 the academic economist and former Marxist Sergei Bulgakov, a priest’s son who had recently and very publicly returned to Christian faith, published a long essay on the crisis of Russian culture and the mentality of the Russian intelligentsia. It is important to recognize that this . . . . Continue Reading »
Bishop Peter J. Elliott joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Sexual Revolution: History, Ideology, Power. Continue Reading »
The Victims of Communism Museum opened only last year after decades of thoughtful planning, and the care that went into the project shows. Visiting the museum is a powerful experience. Continue Reading »
No doubt globalization has had adverse consequences for some Americans; it has also helped lift as many as two billion people out of abject poverty. Continue Reading »
Sixty years later, we find ourselves asking: Is the vision of Pope John XXIII's Pacem in Terris realistic? Continue Reading »
Another Kennan biography? The study of George Kennan—American diplomat, strategic mind, and architect of the “containment” doctrine that guided U.S. policy throughout the Cold War—is so persistent in academic and policy circles that it has become almost a sub-discipline in . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservatives in the West see in the People’s Republic of China a daunting nemesis: an oppressive tech dystopia ruled by a Leninist party that negates conservatism’s attachment to civil society, Christianity, and individual liberties. You might expect the intellectual mainstream in mainland . . . . Continue Reading »
On this episode, Mark T. Mitchell joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class. Continue Reading »
Matthew Heise joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The Gates of Hell: An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union. Continue Reading »
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