Mark R. Royce

Mark R. Royce, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, and author of The Political Theology of European Integration: Comparing the Influence of Religious Histories on European Policies (2017), and Ecclesiology, Idealism, and World Polity: The Concordats of the Apostolic See ([under contract] 2024), both from Palgrave Macmillan. He also attained the rank of First Lieutenant in the Virginia State Guard, and may be reached at [email protected].

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Fascists Among Friends: Review of David Austin Walsh’s “The Conservative Movement and the Far Right”

David Austen Walsh’s “The Conservative Movement and the Far Right” commits the historical sin of projecting contemporary categories onto past figures and events

The Langley School of Falsification: Trotsky’s Legacy, Hunter’s Laptop, and CIA Tampering with the 2020 Election

Despite allegations that Russia planted Hunter Biden’s laptop, an examination of Russia’s history of disinformation shows this was always a far-fetched allegation

Zionist “Racism”: Rebutting the Most Problematic Allegation Against Israel at War

Is the Israeli state a “racist regime,” as critics allege?

Between Prime Minister and Prophet: Reflections on Geert Wilders

Although unlikely to become the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Geert Wilders has unmistakably altered his nation’s political trajectory

Learning from Lenin on the Centenary of his Death

In 2024, on the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death (1870-1924), the study of his writings is as important than ever

Ukrainian Film and the Chronic Ineffectiveness of International Law

Putin has learned to create just enough seditious mayhem to subvert international law, but not enough to provoke war

Scowling Liberty: Review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”

Historian Gary Gerstle traces the rise and fall of the neoliberal regime in his new book

Global Warmism as Reformulated Dialectical Materialism

Calls to globalize the struggle against climate change have echoes of another global struggle against capitalism

The Anarchism of Julian Assange

Julian Assange’s ideology reveals startling similarities with anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

ALEXANDER DUGIN: Critique, Confrontation, and Chrysalis

Alexander Dugin is a serious scholar, a genuine intellectual, and a provocative social scientist who may be not unworthily pronounced the most formidable theoretical opponent of Western liberalism since Lenin.