A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives

Biden’s State of the Union lacked the moral clarity on the civilizational struggle the US is in against China and Russia

Vladimir Putin was not born to be a dictator, but rather made a series of free choices through adulthood that led him to evil

When ideology is placed before truth in science, the laws of nature themselves can become its greatest victims.

George Kennan’s “Sources of Soviet Conduct” article in Foreign Affairs remains one of the most influential of all time

The history of Imperial Russia is more relevant than ever with the invasion of Ukraine

Peace with Russia, as in Soviet times, has always been unpalatable but necessary.

Dmitri Volkogonov’s histories contributed significantly to the delegitimization of the Soviet regime in the eyes of ordinary Russians by exposing the naked terror which underpinned the USSR.

Richard John Neuhaus was always fond of reminding those drawn to the seductions of modern secular political faiths that they…