The strategic anxiety of encirclement has driven great-power policy for centuries; Russia and China represent the modern version of this classic security dilemma.

Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech gave hope to the oppressed in the Soviet Union

Historian Paul Johnson once observed that one of the most important qualities of a statesman is the capacity to make moral distinctions.

In 1945 Americans and Russians met near Torgau, Germany in a rare moment of unity. Can this be repeated?

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.

Traditional values and religious freedom are increasingly perceived as contradictory, but they do not have to be.

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

When our own statue-toppling Western culture-warriors seek to empty our museums and metaphorically shoot busts of our own national heroes through the skull here at home, they should consider the implications. Revisionist culture-wars may one day prevent nations from defending themselves properly in real shooting-wars.

The fragile peace the Russia has experienced by granting autonomy to ethnic minorities may unravel under the strains of the Ukrainian Invasion.