Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet
In exile, Solzhenitsyn turned to harsh criticism of the West, not just for failing to stand up to the Soviet regime and fully confront its malevolence.
Cathy Young
· 14 min read
History
A collection of 350 posts
The Children of the Revolution
Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
James David Banker
· 9 min read
What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature?
Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only
Daniel Kalder
· 10 min read
What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?
The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.
Alexandra Hudson
· 15 min read
Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump
No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago.
Matt Johnson
· 16 min read
Understanding the Miracle of Hanukkah Through the Ancient World's Prism of Horrors
Judah’s men were not gentle souls.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools
Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.
Robert MacBain
· 14 min read
Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?
The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission.
Barbara Kay
· 16 min read
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism
Conspiracy theories foreclose the possibility of explanation, because they postulate unalterable conclusions in search of evidence instead of following evidence to plausible conclusions.
Jamie Palmer
· 28 min read
Nazis: A Modern Field Guide
In the spirit of the Handbook on German Military Forces, I offer readers this brief field guide to the various kinds of “Nazis” who inhabit the world of 2018.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras
With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 6 min read
Purity or Universalism?
The main problem with the quest for purity is that it is fine in one’s own home or church but it becomes a problem in the public square, which—by virtue of being inherently diverse and competitive—is configured to resist the wish to be pure.
Sami J. Karam
· 10 min read
Western Civilisation "Not Welcome Here"
The new humanities maintain that for the last 500 years, Western Civilisation has got it wrong when it comes to knowledge, truth and science.
Bella d'Abrera
· 8 min read
The Soviets and the JFK Conspiracy Theorists
We can learn far more from the files still under wraps in Russia and Belarus.
Fred Litwin
· 11 min read
Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex
The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’
Renee Gerlich
· 8 min read