This year, 2023, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary and historical masterpiece which described brilliantly the inhuman “archipelago” of horrific concentration camps established by Lenin in the wake of the creation of the Soviet Union in 1918 and expanded and refined under Stalin and his successors.
While some have mistakenly perceived the American and French Revolutions as similar in nature, they could not be more dissimilar.
For those tens of millions of Americans who lived through the American experience of the war in Vietnam, it was almost without exception an excruciating and life-shaping experience.
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a civil rights and religious liberty case Groff v. DeJoy that may well have a significant impact on the religious freedom of American workers.
Most Americans alive today are not aware that in the last half of the 19th century, President Ulysses S. Grant was probably the most admired man in America with the exception of President Abraham Lincoln.
Ms. Pelosi’s profound shallowness reminded me of former CNN commentator Chris Cuomo asking, in the midst of the ongoing riotous violence of 2020, “Who says that protests have to be peaceful?”
I firmly believe that another Great Awakening can happen in our time. As a country America is overdue.
Given the Russians’ horrible behavior in these provinces, including kidnapping and sending back to Russia thousands of Ukrainian children to be adopted by Russian parents, my guess is that a critical mass of Russian-speaking Ukrainians will vote for being self-governed by Ukraine rather than Mother Russia.
The culture wars of the last half of the 20th century and the first third of the 21st century in America have produced some previously unimaginable alliances.
Once in a while, too seldom actually, a book is published that screams, “I am a classic! I will be around for a good while and I will make a difference.”
