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

Formerly Soviet-controlled nations have been removing Soviet monuments for decades, yet recent removals are different

Vivek Ramaswamy is largely right about America, but fundamentally wrong about Ukraine.

Very smart people, no less than regular people, can become wickedly insane in their political judgments.

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

Despite the triumphant mood of the 90s, the struggle for democracy never really ended, as Putin’s invasion of Ukraine proves.

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