A collection of 22 posts
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
Wokeness has not retreated—it has simply shapeshifted.
A valuable new collection of wartime letters written by Leslie Fiedler shows how politically astute the budding literary critic was about communism.
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism.
In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them?
The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic.
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
It is into such pathologies that The Captive Mind delves, and why it has such application to our time.
Under the Frog was based on his Magyar parents, both of them basketball players who, in the wake of the doomed 1956 uprising against the Soviets, fled Hungary for Britain.
The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.
The rising star of Pete Buttigieg—a young mayor of a blue-collar city whose political message leans heavily on the importance of faith and community and away from political orthodoxy—is a powerful testimony to the emerging market for applied communitarian thinking on the political Left.
Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.