It is fascinating and instructive to read and digest the various critiques of the recent Russian presidential elections, March 16-18, 2024. Western journalists both on the political Left and the supposed political Right have uniformly attacked the vote as “rigged” and the election as stolen. That is, the election apparatus of “dictator” Vladimir Putin—who, along... Read More

I think it fascinating that our Western news media have only quoted or cited a portion of the speech that Vladimir Putin gave yesterday (October 3) on the accession of four historically and heavily ethnic Russian regions back into Russia (which were arbitrarily assigned to Ukraine back in the 1920s and, Crimea, in 1954). Obviously,... Read More

In a recent issue of Chronicles Magazine (March/April 2022) my friend Paul Gottfried, Editor-in-Chief, writes about the perilous condition of genuine liberty in modern Germany (“Germany, Harbinger of the Abyss,” pp. 6-8). Germany has become, in numerous ways, the most authoritarian, controlled, and “woke” country in all of Europe. And each successive new restriction on... Read More