The MAGA-minded Republicans seldom make sense when speaking; however, every once in a while, you cannot help but be surprised ...

During the 1940s Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter, Viennese exiles all, offered a robust critique of ...

The White House walked back President Joe Biden's recent remarks in Poland calling for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin's removal from power. Coming from the American president, the statement was ...

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality ...

In his book Religion and the Modern State, the eminent Catholic historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) may have startled many readers when he made the comment that “European culture had already ...

We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This is the predictable result of the recent rise of authoritarian regimes which, to a greater or lesser extent, ...

After reading my recent column (more like a tirade) on the dysfunction posing as governance in our nation's capital, a valued reader suggested the explanation lies in a 9-year-old book by Princeton ...

Racism, lying by officials, cracks in the edifice of civil society, widespread stupidity, and the lure of authority—these are among the issues that plagued Hannah Arendt during her years in the United ...

It’s not just me who thinks the US is sliding into a woke-led totalitarianism. Prof. Andrew Michta, writing in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal, says that America is “resegregating.” More: Czesław ...

“The Republic of Armenia has never seen this many political prisoners since independence. This indicates a transition from a ...

In late 1959, Chinese officials in the provinces began to investigate wild rumors that people were eating one another. Most of the officials must have already known that Mao Zedong’s call for a “Great ...

I have an object to which, for many years, I’ve given pride of place in every house I have lived. It’s a wall hanging of sorts, a two-by-three-foot glass display that contains a hand-printed daily ...