Prosperity Breeds Idiots
by Francis X. MaierSocialist thought seems more fascinating when perceived from a secure and prosperous distance. Continue Reading »
The Demon in Middlebury
by Ryszard LegutkoThe invitation from Middlebury College to speak about my book The Demon in Democracy came last year. I was pleased to receive it, as it seemed to indicate that the book resonated in American academic circles. Middlebury was the sixth or seventh university in America to have issued such an . . . . Continue Reading »
High Noon in Poland, Thirty Years Later
by George WeigelThe thirtieth anniversary of Polish liberation from communism reminds us of the heritage of democratic life. Continue Reading »
Revolution, 30 Years On
by Dan HitchensWe ought to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of communism’s defeat, but it is difficult to say what actually did the defeating. Continue Reading »
Russian Jeremiah
by Ryszard LegutkoBetween Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 by aleksandr solzhenitsyn notre dame, 480 pages, $35 The first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s memoir of exile, Between Two Millstones, begins with the author’s expulsion from the Soviet Union and closes with him viewing the landscape . . . . Continue Reading »
Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy
by Robert P. GeorgeWhat Solzhenitsyn faulted America (and the West more generally) for was its abandonment of its own moral and, especially, spiritual ideals and identity. Continue Reading »
Battle for Europe
by Ryszard LegutkoByliśmy głupi by marcin król czerwone i czarne, 256 pages, zł 39.90 Pravým okem: Antologie současného polského politického myšlení edited by maciej ruczaj and maciej szymanowski centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 203 pages, kč 249 Resistance to Communism in Eastern Europe was . . . . Continue Reading »
Blacklisted
by Ron AustinI am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer. I can’t prove this any more than I could legally prove my blacklisting at the time. (The blacklist, after all, was an illegal conspiracy subject to lawsuits.) I am reasonably certain about this claim because I knew the Hollywood writers in . . . . Continue Reading »
Poet in History
by Helen AndrewsMiłosz: A Biographyby andrzej franaszektranslated by aleksandra parker and michael parkerbelknap, 544 pages, $35 The impression left in the mind of an American reader, after he finishes Andrzej Franaszek’s exhaustive new biography of Czesław Miłosz, is the absurdity that this man was ever . . . . Continue Reading »
The Communist Mystique
by Dan HitchensTrying to really believe in Communism now would be like trying to believe in Moloch or Anubis. The willingness to give up everything, which animated previous generations of revolutionaries, has vanished. Continue Reading »
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