totalitarianism

There was a continual drumbeat from the legacy media throughout the election cycle that former President Donald Trump was a grave threat to democracy. Yet exit polls on Election Day showed that this was a concern of a far larger percentage…

A Beautiful China – Eleven – Goodbye, Communism Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, July 25, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of…

The current media fight with Democrat Party donors over how to handle Joe Biden’s public senility recalls inter-Communist Party struggles just before the Soviet Union’s collapse. The President of the United States has made clear he’s not…

The true crime genre is not big enough for what Communists and socialists did in Russia in the 20th century. It demands a new genre — perhaps call it true horror. Bill Whittle’s newest season of “What We Saw” on Daily Wire Plus dips its…

Just after Christmas 50 years ago, the original Russian edition of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago was published, followed by French and English translations the next year. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book “to all…

Archbishop Fulton Sheen was America’s public face and voice of Catholicism during the maelstrom of the Second World War and into the early decades of the Cold War. A tall, imposing, and charismatic Irish-Catholic bishop, Sheen was an…

It’s not clear whether Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is hostile. Musk could be motivated by deeply personal reasons to battle Big Tech’s enforcement of Marxist identity politics. Or he could be attempting to do damage control for the…