Totalitarianism
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The Voice of America Falls Silent April 16, 2025
On February 21, 1990, Václav Havel, the Czechoslovakian dissident turned president, received a rapturous welcome from a packed U.S. Congress. In his speech, Havel recalled that just months earlier he had been arrested by Europe’s most conservative co...
Fighting the Ideological Lie April 14, 2025
This book aims to provide nothing less than a full-throated defense of moral and political sanity against the latest eruptions of ideological mendacity in our time. Its thesis is simple enough, but it needs the full resources of applied political phi...
The Fall and Rise of Communism April 01, 2025
Discussing totalitarianism today, as well as yesterday, with historian Sean McMeekin....
'Progressive Democracy' & the Totalitarian Temptation March 21, 2025
I’ve counted them all up: the teacher who laughs with children at their God and at their cradle, is already ours. The lawyer who defends an educated murderer by saying that he’s more developed than his victims and couldn’t help killing to get money, ...
Where Hannah Arendt Began March 04, 2025
Buried deep in Hannah Arendt’s archives in the Library of Congress are two typed and handbound books of verse—short, expressive, and written by Arendt herself. Few know that Arendt, the German Jewish political philosopher responsible for the dense pr...
The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now February 11, 2025
A generation on from the fall of the Soviet Union, the intellectual and political class in the democratic world still fails to grapple with the totalitarian episode that upended civilized life and politics for most of the twentieth century. That fail...
A Return to Ideological Competition March 20, 2024
President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech addressed one of the great flashpoints of our times regarding Russia and its neighbors. But the speech fell short in articulating the war of ideas that lie at the heart of Russia’s aggression, China’s...
